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TIL It’s illegal to have a fish without a friend in Switzerland.

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9wLvQ TIL JFK’s last words were “No, they sure can’t” in response to Nellie Connally, First Lady of Dallas, who remarked “Mr. President, they can’t make you believe now that there are not some in Dallas who love you and appreciate you, can they?”
OoexL TIL that in 1888 an Egyptian farmer found a mass grave of thousands of mummified cats. Over 180,000 of them were eventually shipped to Liverpool England and used as fertilizer.
xvRD TIL that there is a species of frog that will intentionally break its bones to make ‘claws’ as a form of self-defense
mMaO TIL despite rising sea levels, Finland’s geographic elevation is actually rising relative to the ocean
Lkamm TIL about the Banu musa. A family of three golden age islamic scholars who are known for the “book of ingenious devices” which describes 100 inventions. The Banu Musa Brothers are credited with inventing the first music sequencer which was the earliest type of programmable machine.