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TIL Squatting is legal in Belgium

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9ggp TIL that President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” for being a man of small words. An example of this is part of a story that says that a matron, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” He replied, “You lose.”
6jdm TIL of Kiyoko Matsumoto, who in 1933 committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. Japan. This started a trend in Japan, and in the year after her death 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater
Z8bDQ TIL, Alice in Wonderland was once banned in China, "Bears, Lions and other beasts cannot use human language"said the governor of the Hunan province in 1931. "To attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race"
awQdy TIL Gerbils or Hamsters and other small rodents will sometimes(if not often) eat their babies
VBG7Q TIL that the BlueSky social media network has the same name as its current CEO, Lantian "Jay" Graber, whose first name means "blue sky" in Mandarin