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TIL that Switzerland has legally mandated daily 'quiet hours' and the whole day of Sunday is considered 'quiet time.' You can be cited for doing things like cutting your grass on Sunday.

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PYy1L TIL At the 1896 Olympics, American Robert Garrett decided to enter the discus event; “to have a try”. He had never thrown a regulation discus in his life. Attendees were laughing, as his first 2 throws narrowly missed hitting audience members. However, his 3rd throw won him the gold medal.
W7kEA TIL that ancient Sparta was a diarchy, a nation ruled by 2 kings.
pY04p TIL there is a rainforest in Iran!
neor9 TIL: Bill Nye the Science Guy is related to the founder of Nye Lubricants, whose replacement whale oil led to the international ban against whaling.
loBJa TIL there were ethnic German villages in Turkey until the last villager died in 1999