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Today I learned there is a zoo in Sari, Iran that used to feed live donkeys to their lions every Thursday until it was shut down because the lions were inexperienced and unable to efficiently kill their prey in a reasonable amount of time.

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oB8rY TIL about the IBM's System/23 Datamaster, designed to be set-up and operated by first-time computer users, and the predecessor to the PC. This desktop computer weighed 95 lbs, had 256 kB of memory, a text-only display, and cost around $9,000 (equivalent to $25,310 in 2019).
Zp8ga TIL about “The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho” where you can be murdered for playing music. “After one Famo musician allegedly shot another in 2004, a cycle of revenge developed, fuelled by poisonous lyrics in songs.” This has now led to Lesotho having the sixth-highest homicide rate in the world.
JYAE8 TIL that nudists refer to non-nudists as “Textiles”
e0XAJ TIL that in the Czech Republic denial of communist-perpetrated atrocities is illegal.
rN4Vd TIL, Dungeons and dragons was demonized back in the 1980s particularly from religious groups due to the fantasical and violent nature of the game