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TIL German animal protection law prohibits killing of vertebrates without proper reason. Because of this ruling, all German animal shelters are no-kill shelters.

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Roya TIL That English musician David Bowie does not have any recollection of creating his critically acclaimed album,“ Station to Station.” This is because he was in a psychotic state of terror, fueled by an “astronomical” cocaine habit.
Eg0yP TIL about George Bridgetower, a Polish-born black violinist and composer who rubbed shoulders with Beethoven, King George, and Thomas Jefferson
On5e TIL the American spelling of aluminum (as opposed to aluminium in other countries) is the result of a misspelling by the inventor of a refinement process named Charles Martin Hall. The process was so revolutionary that the spelling stuck.
l5bG TIL South Korea once sent China thousands of trees to plant in the Gobi Desert to help minimize the “yellow dust” that engulfs the Korean peninsula every spring. Instead, China planted the trees along a highway.
oBbkr TIL water is not colorless. The pure water has a slight blue color that becomes a deeper green as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The blue hue of the water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of white light.