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TIL that China has started to ban eating dogs and cats (Shenzhen and Zhuhai)

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R7Xwj TIL that between 800 and 1349, the Colosseum was used as an apartment block.
nW9bG TIL that there are 167 Zoroastrian fire temples in the world, of which 150 are in India. Of these only 9 (1 in Iran and 8 in India) are the main temples known as atash behrams and the remaining are the smaller temples known as agiarys.
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