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Today I learned that in Japanese zoos, zookeepers dress as tigers as training for zoo escapes

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Ql8X TIL that before 2003, it was legal for 16-year-old girls to pose topless in British newspapers. One paper, the Daily Sport, was known to count down the days until it could feature a girl topless on her 16th birthday.
R7j9w TIL in 2019 Zimbabwe spent £118,000 on 64 judges' wigs from a London based company
neOXd TIL of The Olgas, Australia’s lesser known ‘giant rock’. It’s highest point is more than 200meters taller than Uluru.
g7d4 TIL that in 1906 a man was sentenced to a minute in prison, his name was Joe Munch.
8eL6K TIL The Birds (Spring/Summer 1995) is the fifth collection by British designer Alexander McQueen for his eponymous fashion house. The Birds was inspired by ornithology, the study of birds, and the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds, for which it was named