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TIL minarets (the towers of mosques) are banned in Switzerland

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BrQGb TIL Iceland is the only country where 100% of the population has internet access.
WkP0L TIL The neuroscience of free will is still very hotly debated. Experiments that try to determine predictability of choice show that both unconscious and conscious operations are involved in decision making. Philosophers used these studies to argue both hard-determinism and compatibilism.
mEDx TIL the inspiration for the novel Fight Club came to Chuck Palahniuk after he got in a fight on vacation. When he returned back to work none of his coworkers would ask what happened.
VlXB TIL American fighter pilot William Bruce “Bill” Overstreet Jr. (April 10, 1921 – December 29, 2013) shot down a German Messerschmitt Bf-109G after chasing it through the arches of the Eiffel Tower.
ADQ7g TIL that naked mole rats can't feel pain, and in addition to that, are resistant to cancers, and are the only cold-blooded mammals.