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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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d8Lvr TIL about the ‘mad hatterpillar’, which wears its discarded heads on its body every time it outgrows its exoskeleton
yQ67M TIL Stuffed toys are less than 150 years old with the first stuffed toy being a felt elephant originally sold as a pincushion
w0B6 TIL that the CIA once turned down a ‘Freedom of Information Act’ request that inquired about Osama Bin Laden’s “fairly extensive” porn collection collected in the raid of his compound in 2011.
GkDN TIL that nearly 3% of American films in the 1960’s contained scenes involving quicksand
Ovx1 TIL that during the Battle of Moscow, despite German forces closing to within 50 kilometers of the city, the Soviet Union still held the annual military parade marking the revolution. Soviet troops who paraded past the Kremlin, then marched directly to the front line and into battle.