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TIL Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig.

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WkZa8 TIL of the Bat' d'Af', French military units composed of heavily-tattooed criminals and problematic soldiers. Members called the units "the Hell" due to harsh discipine and living conditions. Despite this, they served with distinction in France's colonial wars, Crimea, and WW1.
rPX4 TIL homeopaths without borders is an actual charity
WoRL TIL that the Roman Emperor Caligual once declared war on Posiden by ordering his army to head to the beach and start stabbing the water.
0d15 TIL the Japanese Honey Bee kills its most fearsome predator (the Japanese Giant Hornet) by creating a 500 bee convection oven and cooking single Hornets to death.
R5l79 TIL that from 1921 into the 1960s the town slogan of Greenville, Texas was "The blackest land, the whitest people"