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TIL Sting sang backup vocals on the Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing"

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b60b0 TIL in 2007, the town of Tamaqua PA passed a law granting ecosystems legal rights. Any resident can file a lawsuit on behalf of the ecosystem.
pR6e TIL, in a rare case of mutualism, a pod of Orcas in Australia would help hunt, capture, and kill Baleen whales.
mxV9y TIL that in some highschools in Japan the students need to hatch and raise chickens before killing and eating them.
jNnlv TIL Despite Father's Day being celebrated since the Middle Ages in most of Europe, it wasn't founded until 1910 in the US and post-WWII in the UK.
v1n98 TIL: The US Army, Navy and Air Force have massive, taxpayer-funded sports programs that compete with universities, and they aren't required to disclose their finances