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TIL about Bir Tawil, the only place on Earth that is habitable and is not claimed by any recognised government

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KOV54 TIL If you weighed 100 pounds at the north pole on a spring scale, at the equator you would weigh 99.65 pounds, or 5.5 ounces less. Your mass, in grams, would stay the same because 'grams' is a measure of the resistance of a body to being moved and has nothing to do with acceleration or gravity.
dDWxZ TIL cats can't be vegan or vegetarian. They are obligate carnivores, meaning their anatomy and physiology are designed to get the nutrients they need from animal tissues, not from plants.
Bggjy TIL: The smell of rotten eggs from natural gas is added to identify it, natural gas is inherently odorless.
p8gkG TIL Pope Pius II sent an angry letter to Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) rebuking him after word spread that he held a 5 hour orgy at a child's baptism. Pius wrote "In order to have more freedom for your amusements you forbade entry to the husbands, fathers, brothers, and relations.."
6kL8 TIL when Argélico Fucks, a retired Brazilian footballer, left FC Porto and joined the rival S.L. Benfica, the headline on Eurosport.com read “Fucks off to Benfica”