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TIL that a British, Finnish or Swedish passport will let you into 173 countries without a visa, the most in the world

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VM0W8 TIL In Barcelona, they control the pigeon population by mixing birth control chemicals with the birdseed
LkXKV TIL that an artist made a counterfeit penny out of $100 worth of gold, which he copper-plated and then put into circulation in Los Angeles. Two years later, it was found in New York.
OoQBL TIL: Joshua Bell, one of the top violinists in the world played during rush hour in a DC metro station on his 3.5 million dollar violin. He acted like a normal street performer, It was an experiment to see if normal people would notice his musical talent. They did not.
yVGga TIL: Feng Lung, upon discovering her husband's infidelity, cut off his penis. He was rushed to the hospital and they reattached it, while he was recovering she snuck in and cut it off again and threw it out the window. The husband chased her outside and staff found him beating her while bleeding.
jNNWM There's no scientific evidence to support the conventional wisdom that women wounded in combat would destroy male soldiers' morale and performance.