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TIL that the Dutch police have trained eagles to fight criminally driven drones

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GAQQ1 TIL that Tony Bennett's first songwriting credit was for lyrics set to a Django Reinhardt tune on his final solo album, 2004's The Art of Romance. All prior songs he sung were written by others, and all subsequent Tony Bennett releases were credited collaborations.
gr7G4 TIL Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig. Since guinea pigs are such social creatures, one guinea pig would get lonely so having just one is considered animal abuse in Switzerland.
rWlw TIL that in 1898, a Bayer businessman named a drug they’d developed, “Heroin,” as it was expected to be a heroic cure for tuberculosis. Ironically, illicit heroin use later contributed to an epidemic resurgence of the disease.
ZY6o TIL that men have to pay child support to women who rape them
1a95r TIL the McRib was invented as a workaround to a chicken shortage