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TIL a Maltese dog named Trouble was sent around 20-30 death threats for his money.

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oBDOK TIL that on multiple occassions, scientists have in fact compared apples and oranges, and according to one study performed at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1995 they have been found to be "remarkably similar".
dDLrr TIL in the beginning of 20th century, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was ended bc the British Empire refused to accept Japanese proposal of Racial Equality Clause. Turning the later World War 2 moral positions on its head.
N7kQ6 TIL that EU citizens living in another EU member state have voting rights in local and EU elections in their country of residence, even if they're not citizens of that country.
won68 TIL that the last soldier of the British Empire to die in WW1 was the Canadian George Lawerence Price who died two minutes before the end of the war.
78xbx TIL scientists used AI to design brand new antibiotics that cured MRSA in mice, and researchers also found a totally new class of antibiotics from soil (lariocidin) the first in decades. Both could help fight drug-resistant superbugs