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TIL the only country with no live chickens is Vatican City

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oaVR TIL that there is an ongoing project to build a 40-story tall, 3D-printed globe big enough to feature every manmade and natural feature larger than 30 ft. on the surface of the model.
7nBP TIL Twofold Bay whalers had an agreement with a local pod of orcas known as “The Law of the Tongue”. The orcas would herd whales towards shore and block off their escape, allowing whalers to harpoon them. The tongues of the captured whales would then be cut out and thrown to the orcas as tribute.
Jpv4 TIL That Serial Killer Dennis Rader a.k.a. BTK asked the cops if it was safe to communicate via a Floppy Disk. After getting caught he couldn’t believe that cops had lied to him.
KYBM4 TIL that the emperor Caligula exploited his descent from both Augustus and Mark Antony as a pretext to punish a senator for commemorating the victory of the former over the latter at the Battle of Actium
ZGnp TIL that Eugene “Gene” Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, fulfilled a promise he made to his daughter Tracy by writing her initials on a moon rock. Those initials will probably remain there for thousands of years.