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TIL There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written

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9ww0r Today I learned of Apsethus, who trained parrots to tell people he was a god who caged them. He was burned to death upon hearing of his caging of parrots.
6Ev9X TIL in France, it’s against the law for grocery stores to throw away food. It must either be composted or donated to charity.
E7oV TIL the word ‘Matrix’ is Latin for 'womb’
VMOmG TIL of Philippa Fawcett, an English mathematician and the first woman to have topped the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, but who despite scoring 13% higher than the second top scorer did not receive the honorary title of Senior Wrangler.
OGxL7 TIL that a man sued his own search warrant and won the case in the Supreme Court. Titled Marcus v. Search Warrant, he believed the warrant was too vague and was unable to sue any of the agents as they acted within the law.