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TIL that because we can't say for certain whether or not lobsters feel pain, it is now considered an act of animal cruelty to boil lobsters alive in Switzerland

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GYdpN TIL US Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin wanted the US to ratify the UN Genocide Convention. He gave a speech on the need to ratify it each day the Senate was in session from 1967-1986 (a total of 3,211 times) until the US Senate finally ratified it on Feb. 11th, 1986 in an 83-11 vote.
lEra TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.
X0AYR TIL that the best selling commemorative US stamp is an Elvis stamp
gyX8 TIL the band that wrote and performed “Come and Get Your Love” was made up of Native Americans
x694o TIL that the celestial bodies or any objects in space we see in space are actually from the past due to how long it takes for light to travel back to Earth.