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TIL: You can go to jail for a year for declawing a pet cat in Israel.

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grKJ7 TIL Pineapple Express is more than a pot reference and a movie, it's a weather phenomenon that brings moisture from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest.
e08Xn TIL in the 1960's the US Air Force forced live black bears to ride rocket sleds and ejected them from jet planes at Mach 2 speeds
b6ZAj TIL Idaho is the only state that expressly bans cannibalism.
5YbR TIL that in 1761, 60 slaves were left for dead by the French on a tiny coral reef in the Pacific Ocean only to be rescued 15 years later.
m1nXx TIL the Amazon River has another, much bigger river running underneath it.