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TIL Mississippi didn’t ratify the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) until March 16, 1995.

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KAGB TIL that Sammy (Romanski) from Blue Mountain State has produced for BMS, Sarah Silverman Program, & How I Met Your Mother.
ep0Jn TIL that the Mandarin Chinese equivalent of the phrase "speak of the devil" is "shuo Cao Cao, Cao Cao dao," or "speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao appears," referencing the 3rd century warlord and statesman Cao Cao.
7ngZ TIL That though the brain may only consist of 2% of our entire body mass, it consumes a fifth of a persons metabolic energy.
9wpEQ TIL India faces 50 year cycles of rat floods. The cycle is driven by the flowering cycle of bamboo that produces excesses of seeds that increase the rat population. The last mautam (Melocanna baccifera driven event) occured 2007-8 and the next thingtam (Bambusa tulda driven) is to occur in 2025-6.
9ye6 TIL In 2011, the Governor of Tennessee passed a law making it illegal to use someone else’s Netflix account, punishable by a year in jail and a $2500 fine.