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TIL the USA isn't the only country in the world

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oGVY TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.
y8ja TIL Weird Al Yankovic once recieved a telegram from Prince’s lawyers demanding to not even make eye contact with Prince.
eKaL TIL the Soviet Union under Lenin and Trotsky was the world’s first country that decriminalized homosexuality and abortion
5VJE9 TIL the first crime involving a Glory Hole was in 1707, which involved the extortion of a man known in the documents only as Mr Guillam
eax4 TIL that dying by crucifixion was considered so shameful in the ancient world that early Christians made up an alternate ending in which a man was mistakenly crucified in Jesus’ place.