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TIL In Switzerland its illegal to own only one guinea pig
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TIL an 18-year-old male committed suicide as a result of a ‘ghost’ prank carried out by the BBC. Due to the controversy, the BBC put a 10-year ban on the broadcast of the show
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TIL the current Dalai Lama was selected for the role when he was only 2 years old, and formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama when he was 4.
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TIL Written 4500 years ago The Diary of Merer is the oldest papyri ever discovered. It details the daily life of workers who built the Great Pyramid of Giza
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TIL that the movie Apocalypse Now has the most movie mistakes of all time, as documented by viewers (558 mistakes). Followed by The Birds (546 mistakes) and Wizard of Oz (423 mistakes). The single "Best Mistake" was from Star Wars (1977) where a storm trooper hits his head on a door frame.
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TIL 1992 an officer in the Soviet KGB defected to the west brining with him thousands of notes he took during his career in the KGB archives. These notes reveal the KGB’s hand in framing the US government for the Kennedy assassination, spreading the rumor that AIDs was a US invention, and much more.