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TIL In Germany, dancing is banned on 'silent' religious holidays, including Good Friday

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a5XA TIL that a guy named Seth Putnam wrote a song about how being in a coma was stupid, and soon after went into a coma himself. After he awoke, when asked how it felt to be in a coma he said, “It was just as f*cking stupid as I wrote about in my song”.
l7er5 TIL England's Queen Victoria was such an avid matchmaker that the marriages she helped arrange are credited to have shaped modern Europe.
1mKd TIL even when taking dinosaurs into account, the modern day blue whale is the largest animal to ever live.
xV1Pk TIL Holy Land USA is an abandoned Christian theme park where a teenage girl was murdered
YpDGP TIL of Ham, the chimp who was the first hominid in space, trained by NASA to operate a capsule in space. His trainer described the moment he was recovered from his capsule following the project – “I have never seen such terror on a chimp’s face”