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wRVJ TIL In Switzerland it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they’re prone to loneliness
nexB7 TIL of Europe's only legal private army, the Atholl Highlanders, they're not part of the British Army and instead under the command of the Duke of Atholl, the head of Clan Murray
woOOP TIL All 27 of Uranus moons are named after William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters.
AN0xw TIL about the sultanate of women. A period in ottoman history that lasted for a century where the wives and mothers of the sultans held incredible political power that was started by hurrem sultan, the wife of suleiman the magnificent.
8aLK8 TIL that equisetum, or puzzlegrass, inspired the invention of logarithms