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TIL in 2018 Switzerland made it illegal to boil crustaceans alive

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N7b68 TIL Many psychology experts believe the darkness in fairy tales actually helps children learn to cope with terrible things in the real world. As an example the Beauty and the Beast involves the exposure to ugly danger, the monster, and the triumph over evil, and then finding of the good in the evil!
mxLOY TIL Alfred Nobel considered naming dynamite "Nobel's Safety Powder"
ZpPr4 TIL "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" was the first all-digital live action feature. This means that no film was used in the creation of it until film copies had to be made for theaters.
kJaRm TIL that Hawaii is not covered by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. This is because Article 6 stipulates that only the territories of member states located in North America, Europe, Turkey, and the Atlantic North are covered, while Hawaii is located in the Pacific.
E1Gdp TIL dabbing is illegal in Saudi Arabia