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TIL: In Switzerland, it's illegal to own only one guinea pig

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4W1o TIL that wolverines are being trained to find and rescue avalanche survivors, because they are naturally inclined to sniff out animals 20 feet below the snow and eat them.
5njP TIL in the 1960’s the USA planned to test deadly nerve gas (VX and Sarin) on 200 Australian soldiers by bombing a chosen site in a Queensland forest. The plan was eventually vetoed by Aus PM.
awvkA TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold a paper in half 12 times. She also derived the equation describing the limit of paper folding. No theoretical limit exists but the thickness of a paper folded 103 times in half would exceed the size of the known universe
9kE7 TIL CERN scientists presented the Higgs Boson findings in Comic Sans
wlo7 TIL most bamboo species only flower once every several decades, with the entire population flowering at once. When one variety flowers, the entire variety flowers at the same time around the world, regardless of location, climate, or any other factors for reasons scientists have yet to discern.