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6glZ TIL in Switzerland, it is illegal to keep just one guinea pig.
OGJ16 TIL that tie dye is very old and was independently created in China, Japan, pre Colombian Peru, and India almost two thousand years ago
y6m8 TIL the US government killed an estimated 10,000 people by intentionally poisoning alcohol during prohibition
xVyLg TIL David Bowie briefly considered becoming a Buddhist monk. After a few months' study at Tibet House in London, he was told by a Lama, "You don't want to be Buddhist. ... You should follow music."
pgL8 TIL that the inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough had to prove that Vaseline actually worked by burning or putting acid on himself in front of crowds and use Vaseline to heal it. He would the show the healed burns at his later events.