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TIL French author Gerard de Nerval would walk a lobster through Paris to highlight the absurdity of pet ownership.

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1amR4 TIL, that the Queen banned a documentary about the British Royal Family in 1969 which aired only one time in British Television and was locked away in BBC's Vault. But the banned documentary has now reappeared to the public.
rVMW TIL: Most people use the word ‘antisocial’ incorrectly. Antisocial refers to behavior that harms other people/the society. Asocial is the word people mean to use when referring to not wanting/having social relationships or interactions.
nWpO9 TIL that the Knights Hospitaller, One of the many Catholic military orders that fought in the Crusades, exists today and briefly had an air force.
DQwJ TIL There’s a rare natural disaster in which a lake erupts with CO2 asphyxiating any livestock or humans nearby.
v87j TIL Nike made a commercial with a Samburu tribesman saying “Just Do it” in his native language. An American anthropologist called them out. He actually said “I don’t want these, give me big shoes.” Nike’s response: “We thought nobody in America would know what he said.”