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TIL that Russian stadium didn't meet FIFA regulations so they added 18k seats

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8eB6X TIL that many animals hunt and eat porcupine. Badgers may flip them over and eat only the head, while others like bears and lions, consume them whole.
wow4W TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.
woGPJ TIL that “shuttlecock calibrator” is a real job
epyV4 TIL that "Killing baby Hitler" is an ethical and theoretical physics experiment. It explores the idea of time-traveling to assassinate infant Adolf Hitler, delving into ethical consequences and temporal paradoxes.
rR50x TIL A Japanese rail company has apologised after a train left a station 25 seconds early. The operator said, "the great inconvenience we placed upon our customers was truly inexcusable".