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TIL that Gerard Butler is a trained lawyer and was President of the Law Society at Glasgow University

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Wko69 TIL that the King Cobras are cannibals, they eat other snakes. Its venom is a pure neurotoxin. It kills by asphyxiation, brings a complete shutdown of the neuro system and breathing collapses. They can grow up to 18 feet long, king cobra can raise a third of its body and look a human in the eye.
b6GgZ TIL couscous is pasta. Not a grain or rice, it's pasta
X6JX TIL that after he was shot down on May 1, 1960, U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was subjected to a show trial in Moscow, during which he was very calm and dignified during the trial. However, he was sharply criticized later in the American media for not committing suicide.
oB0yR TIL that almost all mammals except for primates are red-green colourblind. This is because all living mammals descend from a small shrew-like species that lived in burrows and mostly came out at night, which had partially lost its sense of vision due to its dark habitat
Y7eEv TIL that the Battle of Spioenkop, which took place in South Africa in 1900, saw Winston Churchill couriering messages to the frontlines and Mahatma Ghandi serving as a stretcher-bearer.