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TIL that Serbia’s maternity leave is among the world’s best–a full year with 100% salary paid.

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jNXBj TIL that humans, aside from domesticating animals (livestock, pets) and plants (crops) also domesticate themselves. One characteristic that all domesticated animals including humans have in common, is a smaller brain compared to their wild ancestors.
4kElN TIL Because passenger airflights aren’t covered by the ADA, wheelchairs can’t be brought onboard. They are regularly returned damaged to their users, who depend on staff for everything from boarding, to using the bathroom, to departing.
wLGR1 TIL of Malchik, a stray dog that made a Moscow train station his home, acting as the resident guard dog. In 2001, a woman fatally wounded Malchik, stabbing him multiple times with a kitchen knife. The woman was arrested and tried. A statue, named "Compassion", was erected in honour of Malchik.
7rbaO TIL about Panasonic Jungle which was a portable platform for MMO titles Battlestar Galactica Online was one of the first games confirmed for the device (Stellar Dawn and RuneScape are the only other known confirmed titles).
OGgY4 TIL about Sedevacantism, the belief that the current Pope is not Catholic and that there has not been a true Pope since John XXIII died in 1963, since all Popes after him accepted the Second Vatican Council which they call heretical