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TIL killing a panda can result in the death penalty in China
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TIL that Edinburgh’s Old Town has underground streets where people used to live
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TIL that Uruguay is considered to have won the world cup 4 times and is therefore allowed to have 4 stars on their FIFA world cup jersey
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TIL of Thomas De Quincy, a 19th century opium addict whose memoir is responsible for the invention of 159 common words including earth-shattering, interconnection, incubator, entourage, subconscious and post-natal. He also popularised the term 'pipe dream'.
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TIL the word “niggardly” is an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly,” and is completely unrelated to the racial slur “nigger” despite their phonetic similarity.
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TIL that captive orcas still hunt. They use bait to catch wild birds.