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TIL it is illegal to spay or neuter your dog in Norway except under specific circumstances regarding health, quality of life, or utility.

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kOLWB TIL that the earliest-living historical person known by name is Iry-Hor, a predynastic pharaoh who ruled over Upper Egypt in around 3200 BC. His dynasty is regarded in Egyptology as 'Dynasty 0' - the first out of 30 dynasties that reigned over Egypt.
D1A4v TIL Jadin Bell was a sophomore in high school, where he committed suicide due to excessive bullying. His father planned to walk across the country to spread awareness for bullying, where he was killed by a semi.
aw5KJ TIL Until the early 60's it was earnestly believed that there were active volcanoes on the moon.
vPyWB TIL Since 1986, Playboy magazine has sponsored the College Fiction Contest. Playboy’s editors read thousands of entries and chose one undergraduate or graduate student’s story for inclusion in the October issue
NEL6 TIL there are tribes called ‘Cargo Cults’, who worshipped planes during WW2, believing they were gifts from the gods, and they built their own small airstrips and phoney planes to attract them. Some tribes still exist today.