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TIL Gun ownership is REQUIRED in some towns in the U.S.

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Oppg TIL Da Vinci was a devoted vegetarian, a nearly-unheard of practice at his time. His love for animals was such that he would often purchase caged birds just to release them.
WkkgA TIL Koalas are actually marsupials and the females have pouches like Kangaroos.
L4Ar TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quiet when it snows
6R1Y TIL In Mozambique, overhead power lines have to be at least 12 m (39 ft) high to permit safe passage of giraffes.
6PdZ TIL clockwise and counterclockwise were originally sunwise and widdershins before clocks were common