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TIL The first scientist who observed necrophilia in penguins was so disturbed that he tried to obscure his findings

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WMyL TIL Lichtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
VMrbm TIL about a village in India, in which people decided to live without street lights for over a month, not wanting to disturb the nest a Robin had built in the switch board. They will turn on the lights, once the birds leave the nest.
9AQQ TIL that in 2006 PETA killed 2,981 pets and only 12 were adopted and in 2008 the Centre for Consumer Freedom petitioned to have PETA reclassified as a ‘slaughterhouse’
78G4M TIL some cheeses are ripened with live mites, which are then eaten along with the cheese
E1amW Today I learned of the California case Lodi v. Lodi, where a man sued himself, represented himself, and won by default after he failed to show up. The court wrote that “it is hard to imagine a more even-handed application of justice,”.