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TIL: the Non Human Rights Project a small team of lawyers who are trying to give intelligent animals legal rights like we have.

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9YVlG TIL: The Dutch government provides free heroin to addicts. These are provided in certified clinics. This helps to bring down cases of overdose. It has improved the life of patients and helped bring down the usage of heroin over time.
0dxwA TIL that Queen were not originally meant to perform at the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert at Wembley Stadium. Organiser Bob Geldof believed "their star had risen and fallen." In 2005, Queen's 21-minute set during Live Aid was voted as the best rock gig of all time.
ZpxRo [TIL] The "Lorem ipsum.." placeholder text is part of 2000 year old philosophical text "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" written by Cicero in 45 BC
e0GJE TIL that Pop Its were invented by a former classmate of Anne Frank, inspired by imagining "a large field of breasts, that you can push the nipple" from one side to the other
LZYZ TIL that one proposed solution to the US debt ceiling crisis of 2012 was the minting of a 1 trillion dollar coin that would be used to pay off the country’s debt.