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TIL Romanian prisoners would receive reduced sentences if they wrote a book.

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b6j04 TIL because the Arctic mammal the Pika doesn't hibernate, they must store food for winter by making hay piles. Pikas choose some plants that inhibit bacterial growth and act as a hay-pile preservatives
M7jv7 TIL that in 1920, the King of Greece was killed after a monkey bite. King Alexander I was trying to break up a fight between his German Shepherd and a pet monkey on the royal grounds when a second monkey attacked and bit him. The wound became infected, and he died of sepsis three weeks later.
YGBx TIL that in 1807 the British Navy put together the West Africa Squadron. Slaver hunters that chased down any slaver ships they could find crossing the Atlantic, and fining them up to £100 per slave on board. Slavers would often throw slaves overboard to avoid paying.
9YOND TIL Johnny Carson caused a toilet paper shortage in 1973 after making a joke on The Tonight Show.
x64po TIL Ibn Baz, who was the most senior Islamic figure in Saudi Arabia between 1993 and 1999, claimed the Sun orbits the Earth.