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TIL in Belgium, people with autism, bipolar disorder, depression and other mental illnesses can request to be euthanised.

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D1Zkv TIL Stan Lee created The X-men as 'mutants' because he didn't want to explain how they got their powers. They were BORN with their powers.
VM6BD TIL Both "Hung" and "Hanged" are past tenses of the word "Hang". "Hanged" is ONLY used when referring to people subjected to death by rope around the neck. "Hung" is used for all other purposes that don't involve an intention to kill.
BrpZK TIL A farmer once sued his neighbor for shooting and killing his dog for 150 dollars in damages. The Lawyer George Graham Vest took the case and in his closing argument gave a eulogy of sorts known as Vest "Eulogy on the Dog" which is memorable to this day.
P1x7J TIL that when a hermit crab outgrows its shell but finds one that's too big for it, it will wait for other hermit crabs to arrive and test out the shell. The crabs line up from smallest to largest so that all of them can exchange shells (though fights over the shells may occur)
QJBwd TIL the computers on the Lunar Modules used for the Apollo moon landings used SI (metric) units for their calculations and converted them to Imperial units for the astronauts to read on their instrumentation panels.