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TIL that in Italy, a judge sentenced scientists to prison for not correctly predicting an earthquake and warning the public

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7BEr TIL: That American toilets clog so much because they have a trapway half the size of the trapway in an Australian or NZ Toilet
oB1RL TIL that in 2002, the term for schizophrenia in Japan was changed from "mind-split disease" to "integration disorder" to reduce stigma. In three years, the percentage of people who were informed of the diagnosis of schizophrenia rose from 37 to 70%. A similar change was made in South Korea.
6EL9Y TIL space smells like burnt steak. Astronauts have also reported space to smell metallic, or like gunpowder. Others have hypothesized that it could smell like raspberries.
mxMNv TIL that beluga whales can mimic human speech, and have caused divers to inadvertently surface due to them mimicing commands to surface
LkBYZ TIL of the Youth International Party, a US political party in the 1960’s who’s nomination for president was a pig named Pigasus