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TIL In Switzerland it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they’re prone to loneliness

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P15mV TIL that Robert Stack of Unsolved Mysteries fame was a world record holding skeet shooter. Here he is talking about it at the Olympics with Arthur Ashe
lMKN TIL Blind people experience visual hallucinations when they take LSD.
6EKMZ TIL the CSS Shenandoah fired last shots of US Civil War in Russian territory
Bx9r TIL when coming to power in January 1933, the Nazi Party passed a comprehensive set of animal protection laws, with Hitler saying “In the new Reich, no more animal cruelty will be allowed”
R7AJ1 TIL of Porajmos, Nazi Germany’s and its WWII allies’ effort to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against Europe’s Romani people. Later research cited by Ian Hancock estimated the death toll to be at about 1.5 million out of an estimated 2 million Roma.