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TIL Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig.

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v1L9L TIL there is a genetic form of insomnia called Fatal Familial Insomnia which results in the inability to sleep, hallucinations, and eventual death of the patient with a few years.
PWbL TIL that in Mexico no test is needed for a driving licence
YjM7 TIL President Franklin D. Roosevelt thought every American should own an acre of land so that they could be self-sustaining in case of catastrophe.
0w8YA TIL, Joseph Beyrle, an American Paratrooper, fought for both the US and the Soviet Union in WW2. He was captured in Normandy, sent to a POW Camp, escaped, joined the Red Army and liberated the camp he had just escaped from. He later met Marshal Zhukov and won the Purple Heart for his Service.
xVPm0 Seven out of ten prescriptions written today are for items unknown to medicine before World War II.