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TIL that not only is it illegal to keep guinea pigs alone in Switzerland – it’s also illegal to force a chicken to wear glasses.

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y9D8 TIL This year Russia opened an 575 meter highway tunnel near its Siberian border with China to divert automobile traffic away from the migratory route of the near-extinct Amur leopard.
Z8QbR TIL the British Royal Navy has been instructed not to detain pirates of certain nationalities because the punishments for piracy in their home countries would make the pirates eligible for British asylum under British human rights legislation.
NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”
PYkAV TIL Although the Greek philosopher Pythagoras is most famous today for his alleged mathematical discoveries, he cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born
0dyw1 TIL Roman specialized slaves, known as alipilarii, were tasked with plucking the hair from armpits and other parts of the body.