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TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other

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m14pM TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.
0ddXv TIL in France it is illegal to disinherit one’s children, meaning that a particular share of the deceased’s estate is legally required to be kept for their children, or for their spouse if they had no children
x6vgk TIL The average lifespan of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches ⚾️
Oo7jR TIL Charles N'Tchoréré, a Senegalese Tirailleurs Sgt. during WW1, CMDR of the Tirailleurs in French Sudan, came out of retirement to enlist in WW2 as a Captain of a French mixed Coy. Surrounded, they resisted for 3 days at 1 on 10. Refusing to be separated from his white men, Germans executed him
ADeba TIL Zipper entrapment is the most common cause of penile trauma in adults, with roughly around 2000 cases yearly.