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TIL Russia is so large that it shares a border with 14 countries and has 11 time zones.

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9wrOD TIL that dog fighting is still legal in some countries, such as Russia, Japan, Honduras, and Albania.
x695k TIL about the loneliest whale in the world. Dubbed "The 52-hertz whale", it appears to be the only individual emitting a whale call at this frequency in the whole world. The whale itself has never been sighted.
N7w6J TIL that plebeians from the Roman Empire abandoned the city in a form of protest, known as Secessio plebis, leaving the streets completely empty and the wealthy unable to enforce their power.
neKYG TIL the word Geek was originally an early 20th-century term for a carnival worker who was so unskilled that the only thing they could do at a carnival to attract a crowd was to bite off the heads of live animals such as chickens, snakes and rats and swallow them
R5wQ6 TIL that Disney's Coco took some inspiration for the film from John Wick