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TIL France bans all non-court ordered paternity tests in a desire to "preserve the peace."

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RMyQ TIL that two men in Cameroon were each sentenced to 5 years in prison for “looking gay”, after entering a bar together and ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream.
4kmPw TIL We may have a 50/50 chance of having discovered a planet that is 12.4 lightyears away that supports, and has markers for, at least primitive life already existing
vP8oK TIL there's a stinging tree called Gympie Gympie that has a toxin so excruciating it's driven people and animals to suicide. It feels like being doused in hot acid and electrocuted.
0X71 TIL Sean Connery had been offered roles for Morpheus in ‘The Matrix’, and Gandalf for 'Lord Of The Rings’, but turned both down because he “didn’t understand it.”
PYRGg TIL that there is a branch of science known as Paleoacoustics which studies what fossils might have sounded like