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TIL in 2015, a 70 year old man in China spent 57 days in the hospital after a panda arrived at his farm and attacked him.

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W7LD8 TIL that France and Spain "went to war" over a few stop signs in the 1970s and 1980s when France built two new roads that crossed a Spanish road and installed new stop signs which Spanish citizens continually removed over and over again for years. This became known as the "War of the Stop Signs".
LQrPZ TIL about the Yule Log, a 1966 TV program that aired a fire place on a loop with Christmas music , as a televised Christmas gift to those residents of New York who lived in apartments and homes without fireplaces, and so the morning news crew can have a day off
ZgpY TIL that during World War I that US soldiers were the only allied soldiers sent overseas without condoms.
QJroa TIL Switzerland allows assisted suicide even by non physicians if carried out for altruistic/unselfish reasons
BWWK TIL that in China they constructed a building with embedded wind turbines to provide its own power