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TIL courts have ruled that it’s legal for police departments to discriminate against smart people when hiring

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GeWN TIL that up to 3% of Switzerland’s population of 8 million(240,000 people), eat dog and/or cat meat. It is most popular during the Christmas holidays.
nWk5Y TIL that vets perform surgery on fish. For longer procedures they keep the gills wet while the surgery is performed out of the water.
JYX9j TIL about zip bombs, large files that get compressed down to kilobytes, in order to render a system useless while unpacking them. A well known example is 42.zip, which uses some of the common methods to create a zip bomb, like repetition and nested .zip files.
BrZDW TIL donations made by Jewish people often contain the number 18 (like $20.18), or are multiples of 18 (like $108.00). It's called “giving Chai”.
p8dXN TIL that the Bramley apple, a widespread cooking apple, and all of its trees originated from a single tree that was planted by accident 200 years ago. That tree is still alive today