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TIL Tsar Peter the Great put a special tax on men who grew beards

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nW7wb TIL that when Jack Grimm tried to find the Titanic in 1980, he planned to take a monkey called Titan that was trained to point to the wreck on a map. The monkey was left behind when scientists objected. Grimm never found the wreck, despite his sonar traveling right over it.
x8Ro TIL in New Zealand, you can legally own any firearm you want with a few exceptions and their number of gun deaths have been below 100/year since 1992.
MearV TIL jet engines are tested against bird strikes using a "Chicken Gun" that fires dead chicken bodies at them.
7rx9P TIL The Real Difference Between Pleasure and Happiness, Pleasure Is Dopamine and Happiness is Serotonin
06rj TIL that the music video for “Runaway Train” helped bring 26 missing children home