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TIL In Switzerland its illegal to own only one guinea pig

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aewJ TIL that sniper Carlos Hathcock crawled 1,500 yards inch by inch in order not to get detected to kill a high ranking officer, it took him 3 days and 4 nights. He also was the man who shot another sniper through the scope and killed him.
1gkV TIL that a boy didn’t want to wear a hearing aid because “Super heroes don’t.” To get him to wear it Marvel Comics created a super hero with a hearing aid: “Blue Ear”
VMjRm TIL about the Salt Witch of the Nebraska Plains. Indians maintained that a salt column was under the custody of the Salt Witch, and when they went there to gather salt they would beat the ground with clubs, believing that each blow fell upon her person and kept her from working other evil.
0daAp TIL butter sold on the west coast comes in shorter and wider sticks compared to butter sold east of the Rocky Mountains
K8L6 TIL that a teenage girl, Claudette Colvin, did the exact same thing as Rosa Parks months prior, but the NAACP didn’t stand up for her because she was an unwed, teen mother.