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TIL that changing another country’s weather is considered a war crime under the Geneva Convention of 1976.

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4m5o TIL that the last US President to speak a foreign language fluently was FDR
Eg0m7 TIL cats respond to baby talk, but only if it's coming from their owner
AbY7 TIL that scientist (Dr. Robert G. Heath) at Tulane University discovered the “pleasure centers” of the brain by zapping it with electricity in the 1950s, giving a woman a 30-minute orgasm.
e099D TIL that the European Organization for Nuclear Research has animal shelter for computer mice.
W7Xj8 TIL In 1937 the city of Vancouver banned white women from working in Chinese-owned restaurants because Chinese bachelor men were viewed by white Vancouverites as a threat to white women