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TIL it is illegal in many countries to perform surgical procedures on an octopus without anesthesia due to their intelligence

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8aVAG TIL that HTTP error code 451 (unavailable for legal reasons, e.g. censorship) is a reference to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
XE79Q TIL an election team in India travels over 35km to collect a vote from a single voter in the region.
BrkdL TIL in 1965, the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople lifted a reciprocal excommunication that had been in place since 1054
eBKJ TIL that weed and hops are from the same plant family
0w7Vv TIL The famous Gauss electric flux theorem was modified in 2011 to include the charge on the Gaussian surface. It is now called Generalized Gauss's Theorem