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Til- its illegal to shoot game birds and wildfowl on sundays and Christmas in the UK

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KO7AB TIL of Tim Macartney-Snape an Australian who was technically the first person to climb all of Everest. He started with a swim in the Bay of Bengal over 700 miles away, ran 1.5 marathons in 5 days to reach a checkpoint crossing, and 29,031ft in elevation gain later he summited Everest.
jWrv TIL that in Japan eating Christmas dinner at KFC is so popular that two-hour lines form at some locations as people wait to get in.
wLw7E TIL November 4th is national “Death to America” day in Iran, and it’s an official national holiday
R5BQ9 TIL that there are two kinds of freedom. A person alone in a desert has the perfect negative freedom to choose where to die. A person on a highway has the positive freedom to drive wherever they want, in large part because they don't have the negative freedom to drive on the wrong side of the road.
mx8Zx TIL the patent for toilet paper (1891) features an illustration that would imply the correct way the roll should be placed would be so the paper hangs over, and not under.