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TIL in Mexico, alcohol sales are banned on election days, and sometimes several days before.

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p8k9N TIL in 1995 Hayao Miyazaki directed a cyberpunk shortfilm for a rock song after having writer's block. He purposely misinterpreted the lyrics to make the video cryptic to evoke creative interpretations among viewers. SciFi writers and magazines called it "the most perfect short science fantasy film"
4X1J TIL that when a pregnant women decomposes, the gases in the body bloat and push the baby out AKA Coffin Birth
Z8Mg4 TIL Hitchens's Razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence," a dictum coined by antitheist Christopher Hitchens.
YJmx TIL the Vatican’s chief astonomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
6WYZ TIL reindeer eyes switch from gold in summer to deep blue in winter