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TIL that in Germany, it is illegal to kill any animal that is a vertebrate "without proper reason" like the animal being ill or a danger to humans. Because of this, all German animal shelters are no-kill.

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4kADX TIL; Taylor Swift’s Eras tour performances at Lumen Field in Seattle on 22 and 23 July 2023 generated seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake
ykdM TIL: A fox shot his hunter in Belorussia(now Belarus). The man tried to finish off the fox with the butt of his rifle, but the fox pulled the trigger with its paws, wounding the man in the process.
b6ONQ TIL that a surgery resident is required to be the surgeon in 850 operations, as part of their five year residency training, in order to get board certified in general surgery.
gKd7 TIL a 50 year old man in Colorado got arrested for brutally killing two raccoons to avenge the death of his cat
kRVE TIL the lyrics of the first original USSR anthem commissioned by Stalin, the lyrics of the second anthem (after De-Stalinization) and the lyrics of the current anthem of Russian Federation were all written by the same man, Sergey Mikhalkov (who was mostly a writer of children books and fables).