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TIL that pet rabbits are highly illegal in Queensland Australia. Owners can be fined $44,000, although magicians can apply for a special exemption.

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QR1k TIL that the main difference between a brand drug and its generic equivalent is the cost of the product. A generic drug must contain the same active ingredients and must be equivalent in strength and dosage to the original brand-name product.
bY0j TIL that Antonio Banderas provided the voice for the main character in the English, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Castilian Spanish and Catalan versions of the movie Puss in Boots.
R55y9 TIL of "mail jumping", a form of mail delivery in Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, USA where mail carriers ride along the side of a boat, jump off on to the dock, deliver mail, pick up outgoing mail, and jump back on to the boat all while the boat continues to move.
6EmJw TIL Physics Laureate Gerard Muorou (2018, Short Pulse Lasers) accidentally revolutionized Ophthalmology when in 1993 a student, struck by the laser, miraculously suffered no damage as the pulse was amazingly short, lasting a femtosecond long. The laser than became the Standard-Bearer in Eye Surgery.
OoyY1 TIL: There have been serious plans to divert the ocean or the Nile into the Sahara to turn it lush