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TIL In 2017, Hai Tao Buddhists who'd bought £5,000 of live Crustacea & released them into the sea for good karma, got fined £15,000 for ‘untold damage’ to the environment by introducing non-native species. In 2012 Hai Tao had released 100kg of cobras in a mountainous area not native to the snakes.

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pW6O TIL in 2008, James “Angry Video Game Nerd” Rolfe, who works with Gametrailers.com, which is owned by Viacom, had his YouTube channel temporarily taken down due to his videos matching content owned by Viacom. The content ID match was to his own videos.
0wXmL TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark's carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.
BkRW TIL the Sydney Opera House is covered in triple-glazed ceramic tiles which make it self-cleaning.
8e79G TIL Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the few major European cities with a Catholic Church, synagogue, mosque and Eastern Orthodox church in the same neighborhood
kOOb4 Short answer: No.