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TIL that in Japan, prisoners on death row are not given a date of execution. They are notified just a few hours before, and their families are not notified until they are dead.

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kOoA4 TIL in 1969, Brazilian bus drivers were arrested for training beetles to crawl inside fare boxes and carry out the coins. The beetles were also arrested.
nGeB TIL the liver is the only human internal organ able to regenerate itself; as little as 25% can regenerate back into a whole liver
VMP1Z TIL in 1935 "Happy Birthday to You" was copyrighted with a value of 5M making it illegal to sing. In 2016 a federal judge ruled that the copyright was not valid and the song had no other claim to copyright, placing it in the public domain, and making it free to sing for all.
BgEvL TIL Hippopotamus Milk is Pink and Acts as Natural Sunscreen
Y7eGW TIL about the Sierra Sounds, audio recordings from the 1970s in the Sierra Nevada mountains, thought by some to capture Sasquatch vocalizations. R. Scott Nelson, a cryptolinguist with the U.S. Navy, stated that the recordings contain a distinct language, not human in origin, and likely not faked.