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TIL that using Skype in Ethiopia carries a 15 year maximum jail term

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PBYL TIL 20% of Belarus’ annual budget is spent on costs associated with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
7rKmZ TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli once plotted to steal the Arno River from Pisa when the city was at war with Florence.
ypyp TIL that Prairie Dogs have one of the most complex forms of language outside of humans. A single “chirp” can convey the size, color and shape of a potential predator.
m1RpP TIL Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run a marathon, specifically, the Boston Marathon and they tried to stop her from running it.
pYEOp TIL of Trofim Lysenko, an influential Soviet scientist who rejected genetics in favor of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas. These ideas led to catastrophic famines in the Soviet Union that killed millions of people, and was also adapted in China to similarly calamitous results.