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TIL whenever staff members at a panda center in China have to interact with a cub, they put on panda costumes sprayed with panda urine in order to limit human contact

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5ndQ TIL John Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing himself.
lobm1 TIL of the Mountjoy prison escape in Ireland where three IRA men escaped the prison in a hijacked helicopter
4kEQJ Today I learned that a rooster was prosecuted in Switzerland for laying eggs and thus, going against the laws of nature in the 15th century and again in the 18th century. The rooster was condemned to be burned alive in public.
oRRJA TIL: 6 hours of work per day is the optimum amount for productivity. The countries with the highest average working hours are also the ones with the lowest productivity.
QNN6p TIL the deadliest weather event in Canadian history was not a storm or natural disaster, but a heat wave in June 2021 that killed 570 people