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TIL that it is completely legal to take an entire raw fish on a plane as your personal item.

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8DaP TIL in 1958, Mao Zedong ordered the Chinese people to kill all the sparrows in the country to protect the rice crops. The effort backfired as, without the sparrows to eat insects, the locust population exploded and wiped out food crops, contributing to the starvation of tens of millions of people.
4Z6X TIL that strawberry Fanta can be found in many Thai shrines as an offering to the spirits
Rbe1 TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male (Gary Kasporov).
N7PG8 TIL that Americanitis - a “condition” caused by too much stress, too little sleep, rushed meals and the fast paced advance of technology - was “cured” by the Great Depression.
Ooyya TIL the survivors of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident have taken an oath of silence not to reveal certain details of what happened