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TIL that up to 3% of Switzerland’s population of 8 million(240,000 people), eat dog and/or cat meat. It is most popular during the Christmas holidays.

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9wKjr TIL that when boxer Sonny Liston became world heavyweight, he had prepared a speech for the crowd he was told would be greeting him at the airport. No crowd turned up, and this is put at the point that Liston realised he would never be accepted as champion.
WkxwX TIL red and yellow cards in FIFA were introduced after a referee was stopped at a traffic light and thought "Yellow, take it easy; red: stop, you're off". They also helped to address the communication issues due to the various languages involved.
gMyJW TIL of Huo Tuo, a surgeon who invented general anesthesia in 100-200 AD. After being sentenced to death for refusing to exclusively treat a king, his scrolls were burned when a guard refused to preserve them. Soon after, the king's son died of illness and the king said he wished he never killed Tuo.
61M8 TIL That child support in Canada is based on past income not current income. People can be ordered by the court to pay more money than they make or have ever made. If Dave Foley returns to Canada he will go to jail because the child support payments are now literally impossible.
XpGD TIL that the 1993 film Cool Runnings was released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia under a title which translates as “Coconuts on Snow”.