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TIL the Central African Republic requires you to live there for 35 years, own land, and be awarded a national honour to become eligible for citizenship

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78rRx TIL in the original pressings of Stevie Wonder's album "The Secret Life of Plants," manufacturers sprayed the cover's inside with a perfume of flower scent (you can still faintly detect it in some copies.) Then people discovered the vinyl records were being eaten away by the scent solution.
LkAVp TIL researchers found a mother dolphin who adopted a young melon-headed whale; the dolphin mother nursed the whale who often pushed his "adoptive sister" away from the mother. The whale took on bottlenose behaviors such as surfing, jumping, & socializing with other young males.
4LN5 TIL the State Hermitage Museum in Russia has a team of cats that prowl the museum to protect the artwork against rodents. The cats even carry a passport with a photo.
vy17 TIL that Martha Stewart ended a relationship with Anthony Hopkins after seeing him in Silence of the Lambs, as she was unable to dissociate him from his character, Hannibal.
grQL4 TIL that Sweden has 267,570 islands, more than any other country in the world.