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TIL During the Machado dictatorship in Cuba, Havana citizens were forbidden to dance the conga, because rival groups would work themselves to high excitement and explode into street fighting.

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4XMAa TIL A brass lion’s head gripping a large brass ring was the most quintessentially British doorknocker. The lion as the king of beasts has been a symbol not only of strength, valor, and power but of Great Britain itself for centuries.
e0ZVk TIL A Filipino politician Reynaldo Dagsa, photographed his own assassination, 2011
yQZba TIL there is a law in Sweden that allows you go on any property you please between July and October so long as you are picking wild berries or mushrooms!
9YvW6 TIL that "Lucy's Law" is set to come into force, effectively banning the sale of puppies and kittens by third parties in the UK to stop puppy farms. Inspired by 'Lucy the Rescue Cavalier' a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel rescued from one such puppy farm-turned doggy activist
Eg6ZP TIL that in 1984, we sent two balloons to float around the atmosphere of Venus. The two probes, Vega 1 and Vega 2, consisted of a spacecraft, a lander and a balloon explorer. After dropping the lander and balloon, Vega 1 and 2 went on to rendezvous with Halley’s Comet.