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TIL that the Vatican is eligible to participate in Eurovision

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wLo6Y TIL that in Japan insect collecting is so popular that during the summer months they have live giant beetle and other insects for sale in vending machines.
Oppg TIL Da Vinci was a devoted vegetarian, a nearly-unheard of practice at his time. His love for animals was such that he would often purchase caged birds just to release them.
yVZPV TIL that nearly all of what we see as lightning is the current returning to the cloud from the ground. It appears to be coming from the cloud because it is illuminating the bolts that didn't reach the ground
j6rn TIL in the early 90’s a naturist student at Berkley went to school naked everyday until the laws changed and he was thrown out.
KOpR6 TIL in the Sellafield nuclear power plant there is an industrial freezer packed with an expanding mountain of radioactive seagulls that were shot by snipers employed by the plant