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TIL of the Bronx Zoo Most Dangerous Animal in the World exhibit of 1963, which featured a cage and a mirror, allowing visitors to see that it was humanity which was most dangerous.

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DQ0xJ TIL that the Union Jack isn’t Great Britain’s legal flag and is only used as such due to precedent.
5YN4B TIL in 2016 a man fatally stabbed 19 people and injured 26 others (most in their sleep) at a care home in Japan in an attempt to advocate the euthanasia of disabled people
PYkRV TIL that those wounded while fighting in the French Foreign Legion can immediately apply to be a French citizen as they are "French by spilled blood".
Brkky TIL of the 1993 Storming of Kempton Park World Trade Centre, when more than 3,000 far-right paramilitaries stormed the venue where multi-party negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa were being held.
4kAba TIL that a law student at The University Of Malaga in Spain attempted to cheat on his exams with 11 BIC pens that had the answers etched on them.