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TIL it is illegal to keep a rabbit as a pet in certain parts of Australia. Exceptions can be made for public exhibitions, such as magic acts

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JYvEB TIL Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, was a critic of the Armenean genocide that Turkey today denies, writing "millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacre".
Z8bjp TIL The Dallas Cowboys were founded when Clint Murchison Jr. inherited his oil tycoon father's fortune of $200 million ($1.4 billion in today's money) and decided to start his own football team with the money.
MeEMW TIL That the Paraguayan Department of 'Presidente Hayes' was named after 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.
d9E9 TIL The British outlawed the worship of Sopona, the god of smallpox, in Nigeria after a doctor infiltrated a powerful cult of the god’s priests and discovered they were deliberately spreading the disease in a plot to increase their power.
AD604 TIL mobile game developers, because the FTC's Truth in Advertising has not caught up with this practice, are allowed to grossly falsify gameplay with advertising in order to get you to download as long as they don't charge you up front to play or download the game.