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TIL: That there is a church in Iceland where you can worship the norse gods

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d8LxZ TIL that while 'the west' have Azimov's 3 laws of robotics that view robots as dangerous beings to be controlled, like The Terminator, Japan have it's own set of 10 laws that imagine Robots as trustworthy and able to serve important social and emotional roles.
7rKpZ TIL: Relatives of a deceased male can ask for Posthumous sperm retrieval. This involves electrocuting the prostate to retrieve sperm.
KkJJ TIL: Russian airline Aeroflot has bred their own line of jackal-dog hybrids for bomb-sniffing, there are only 40 in existence all owned by Aeroflot
OGQKa TIL Forest Whitaker has an identical twin brother who also happens to an actor!
ADoDw TIL of Karl P. Schmidt, a herpetologist who documented his own death after he was bitten by a juvenile boomslang snake. He made detailed notes on the symptoms he experienced, almost right up to the end. He died 24 hours after the bite, bleeding in his lungs, kidneys, heart, and brain.