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TIL In Switzerland it's illegal to use glasses or lenses on domestic poultry

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e08DE TIL that in 1922, 98 people were crushed to death while watching the movie "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" when the the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed under a blizzard's worth of fresh snow
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