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TIL In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they’re social animals prone to loneliness.

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QNnjp TIL that from 1998-99, when Total Request Live's #1 song changed, 55 of those times it was from a Backstreet Boys song to an N Sync song or vice versa
Oo00g TIL about Nelly Bly, America’s first investigative journalist who faked being crazy and was sent to an asylum, where she experienced misdiagnosis, abuse, and harassment. In 1887, “Behind Asylum Bars” was printed. A grand jury investigation soon forced NYC to allocate more money for the mentally ill.
aYbL TIL A Chicago couple won $30 million in the state lottery and didn’t tell anyone. Not even their kids.
QJgdd TIL that the Shakopee Mdewakanton are believed to be the richest tribe in American history as measured by individual personal wealth: Each adult, according to court records and confirmed by one tribal member, receives a monthly payment of around $84,000, or $1.08 million a year.
690EX TIL thanks to a crossover comic series, Dr. Who is canon to the Star Trek Universe.