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

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BaDW TIL that the term ‘panther’ refers to a melanistic jaguar or leopard, and is NOT a separate species.
v1jQ7 TIL that a restaurant in California was secretly serving its customer's Popeye's Chicken for months.
neBm7 TIL The most ancient archaeological record of a prehistoric massacre is in Sudan, with 14,000 years old skeletons, half of them with arrowheads embedded in, which indicates that they may have been the casualties of warfare. This likely occurred in the wake of a local ecological crisis.
PYyGg TIL the Ancient Greeks considered employment (working for hire) to be degrading, "a necessary evil that took time away from leisure, politics, education, and culture, and had little positive value in and of itself."
worBo TIL: About a Western European tradition called ‘Telling the bees’ in which bees are told of important events, including deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the keeper's household.