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TIL that fish cam on Ch31 Melbourne, Australia, used to be live, but the station got complaints from the ACMA when there was a dead fish floating on screen for days.

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PYXxe TIL languages have different conversational representation for barking dogs.
R76b7 TIL in the anatomy building at Dalian Medical University, where medical student can practice on cadavers, there's a sign with a quote from a donor that reads "I’d rather let students try something 20 times on me than see them make one mistake on a future patient.”
GAkL7 TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. The university was founded in 1096, over 300 years before the founding of the Aztec Empire in 1428.
B7mr TIL that after betraying their mission and informing the FBI about Nazi agents on U.S. soil, the two men who saved America from Nazi infiltration were greeted with life imprisonment, threat of execution, and deportation.
p8aZ8 TIL that in Kentucky, Ohio, and Mississippi "idiots" are prohibited from voting. Ohio's Constitution states: "No idiot, or insane persons, shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector". Originally these terms referred to people with mental disabilities.