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TIL Switzerland has 7 simultaneous "presidents", each with equal power. Every year they rotate control of 7 federal depts & who acts as "head of state" (e.g. when dealing with other countries). They come from various parties — right now it's 2 conservatives, 2 liberals, 2 socialists, and a centrist

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Z8yx4 TIL that Discovery Channel lied to a scientist in order to get him to participate in a fake documentary on Voodoo sharks for Shark Week, and edited the interviews on Bull Sharks to make it appear as if he was researching the Cryptid Shark. He did not know what the program was about until it aired.
ZnBv TIL of “paralipsis” - Where you call attention to something by saying you will not mention it.
9YEw7 TIL of 'Heaven's Gate' (religious group), who had participated in a mass suicide of 39 of its members (a coordinated series of ritual suicides) in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.
gXO7 TIL North America used to have penguins.
4kBo6 TIL In 1972 Led Zeppelin were forced to cancel a gig in Singapore when local officials, seeing their long hair, refused to let them off the plane.