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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.

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6npw TIL of “imprints”, hand-reared falconry birds sexually attracted to their keepers. To breed an imprint, the keeper “lets the male bird copulate with his head” while wearing a special hat for semen collection
Ql7d TIL that director Bryan Singer had convinced the main cast of The Usual Suspects that they were all Keyser Soze. The cast didn’t find out the twist ending until the first screening. Gabriel Byrne was so stunned, he yelled at Singer for half an hour.
8a5Xa TIL Samuel Johnson, of Dictionary fame, had a beloved black cat, Hodge. A statue of Hodge, sitting atop a dictionary, is outside Johnson's house in London, now a museum. Johnson admitted he had better cats, but described Hodge as "a very fine cat indeed," the inscription at the base of the statue.
jkZp TIL that Chile has a town in Antarctica, complete with a school, hospital, hostel, post office, internet, TV and cell phone coverage.
d7KK TIL a man spend $40,000 buying out two IMAX theaters to prove ex-girlfriend wrong. “His ex-girlfriend dumped him seven years ago because he couldn’t afford two movie tickets for a date”.