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TIL In China, smuggling a Giant Panda carries at least a 10-year sentence and confiscation of property; under grave circumstances, life sentence or even death sentence together with a total confiscation of property shall be applied.

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XWpQ TIL on March 12 1981, two different comic strips, with the same name and same general idea were published on the same day, one in the USA and the other in the UK, created by two different artists, who had absolutely no knowledge of one another. The comic strip in question is Dennis the Menace.
nWEPo TIL about the "Zeitpyramide" (or "Time Pyramid") which is a public art project in Germany where one block of the pyramid would be placed every 10 years. The construction of the pyramid began in 1993 and it is expected to be completed in the year 3183.
dLB7 TIL: A scientist let a computer program a chip, using natural selection. The outcome was an extremely efficient chip, the inner workings of which were impossible to understand.
b9959 TIL in 2009 Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray starred in a rap song called ‘Autograph’
Z8Lj4 TIL About a Canadian drink called the sour toe. It consists of a mummified human toe at the bottom of a whiskey shot. People donate their toes for the tradition