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TIL It is illegal to own only one guinea pig or parrot in Switzerland. They are a social species, and it is considered abuse to not allow them to interact with others of their species.

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0DW5 TIL that Wayne Gretzky lost 2 of his 62 records since retiring. He also gained back his record for highest average points per game from Mario Lemieux. Lemieux, who came out of retirement from 2000-2005, lowered his average thus giving the record BACK to Gretzky.
wLdK6 TIL about UVB-76, a strange radio station that has been broadcasting numbers from Russia since 1973
5Y85k TIL that President Andrew Jackson's ancestral home was a cottage in Northern Ireland
V90G TIL some dog breeds experience “snow nose,” a phenomenon that causes dogs to lose pigmentation in their nose during winter due to lack of sunlight. It usually returns to black during summer.
rN75d TIL about Maurice Stokes, the NBA's leading rebounder from 1955-58, who kept playing after hitting his head in a 1958 game, but the cabin air pressure on the return flight gave him career-ending brain damage