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TIL You can masturbate in public is Sweden provided it’s not directed at anyone

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YpR8v TIL there is a scifi short story called 'The Man Who Came Early' where a modern engineering student is sent back in time but his lack of practical know-how and his over-sophisticated ideas lead to none of his suggestions being implemented.
EnEd TIL that Erwin Schrodinger came up with his famous cat thought experiment in order to illustrate how ridiculous he believed the idea to be
WknG4 TIL that George Newhall and Tom Yohe, co-creators of the "School House Rock" series of educational short songs, produced a similar series for NBC in 1978 called "The Metric Marvels" to teach kids about the metric system in support of the US' short-lived transition to metric.
GYvZg TIL 50% of the world's pigs live in China
yVej8 TIL beavers have felled trees 145 ft tall and nearly 4 ft in diameter and the largest known dam is 2,790 ft long