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TIL The bony-eared assfish has the smallest known brain-to-body mass ratio of all vertebrates

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4D96 TIL Canada does not allow Americans to enter their country with a DUI on record.
yQ4re TIL that Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel prize winning philosopher, suffered a bad trip after using Mescaline, in which he thought he was menaced by sea creatures. For years following this, he consistently believed that he was being followed by lobsters.
Lk0md TIL that housewarming parties were literally thrown for people to bring wood and warm houses when moving in.
GAyl7 TIL that a steel bridge in India is being dangerously eroded by pedestrians spitting on it
v4wR TIL: The use of pepper spray during wars is banned by Article I.5 of the Chemical Weapons Convention.