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TIL many animal shelters do not allow adoption of black cats in October to protect the cats from being sacrificed or tortured.

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jyOp TIL The United States first space station, Skylab crashed in Australia. The county where it crashed fined NASA $400 for littering. NASA never paid the ticket.
parp TIL The German Pirate Party uses a Open Source software called liquid feedback, which lets the members create and vote on policy in a way similar to reddit and wikipedia.
LkaQd TIL that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in fact completely hollow inside
5XNP TIL that comedian Patton Oswalt sent out a series of tweets on August 17 that came off as very offensive when read individually, but were totally fine when read together (picture in comments).
7KxM TIL A chess grandmaster threw the final round of a tournament in protest of having repeatedly been made to play women. She turned down the chance to defend her women’s world title to play mixed matches and randomly drew 7 women out of 10 rounds. The 5 move loss is the quickest ever by a grandmaster.