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TIL the only country that prohibits killing horses for consumption is the US

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kN95 TIL that the band Keane originally came up with the band name Coldplay, but found it too depressing. Chris Martin asked if they could use it for his band, and Keane agreed.
dDAg8 TIL of Radhanath Sickdhar, an Indian hired as a "computer" and who in 1852 determined through math that Mt. Everest was the tallest mountain in the world
oVj7 TIL during the Cold War the RCMP developed and used a “fruit machine” which measured pupil dilation in relation to pics of men and women to determine whether someone was gay.
gbN4 TIL- The Mona Lisa was not famous until after it was stolen in 1911 and recovered two years later.
mV1R TIL that Sweden’s recycling program is so successful that they are asking Norway for their trash to power their own Waste-to-Power plants because they don’t have enough non-recycled waste.