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TIL Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig.

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ANLr4 TIL that a star 3000 light years away is about to reignite in an explosion so massive that it'll shine as bright as the North Star. This nova event won't happen again for another 80 years!
j6AYa TIL of the final Looney Tune short, which was the 1,000th short produced, and ended with the main character, Cool Cat, cutting himself out of the film.
dDQY8 TIL that in 1896, an inventor came up with the idea of a coffin that would pass current through someone’s body once they laid down in it and rested their head on a switch. The device was intended to allow the suicide to be formally buried immediately afterwards.
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