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TIL Due to their intelligence, in some countries it is illegal to perform surgery on octopuses without anesthesia

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naYB TIL when Juan Belmonte, famous spanish bullfighter, learned of his friend Ernest Hemingway’s suicide in 1961, He replied “Well done”. He would kill himself less than a year later.
Z8GA4 TIL that your body odors changes when you've been successfully infected by plasmodium (Malaria). Thereby making you a better target for mosquitos and spreading the disease.
EjZx TIL Suicides fell by 40% on weekends after IDF soldiers were stopped from taking their guns home with them on weekends.
QJWJa TIL In 1944 Franklin Roosevelt was gifted a letter opener made out of the arm bone of a Japanese soldier but had to return it due to the shock and outrage it caused in Japan and the U.S.
Lk8BZ TIL The United States Supreme Court has declared tomatoes are legally vegetables, not fruit. (Nix v. Hedden, 1893)