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TIL Switzerland allows assisted suicide even by non physicians if carried out for altruistic/unselfish reasons

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dDljE TIL in 1715 Sybilla Masters was awarded the patent for her corn-processing machine in her husband's name as coverture laws at the time prevented a married woman from owning property, including intellectual property.
6P7Y TIL The Korean alphabet can be learned in about 15 minutes and is brilliantly simple.
W7aXX TIL Hedgehogs can suffer from balloon syndrome, a rare condition where an infection to the skin causes it to inflate
a86MM TIL that following their execution (by beheading) for treason, the heads of Baron Saye and his son-in-law were unceremoniously impaled on pikes by a mob and pushed together so that they appeared to kiss.
oJGY TIL that the Liberty bell and Big Ben were cast by the same bell foundry, and that both bells are cracked.