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TIL The Cherokee Nation fought with the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

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nW79G TIL Most farm raised turkeys can't mate due to being selected for meatier breasts and need artificial insemination.
loYLB TIL China is harvesting organs from live "prisoners of conscience", performing more than 4,000 organ transplants per day. The EU parliament has passed resolutions against it but they've gone basically unnoticed
nWvXY TIL that in 1889 in the German city of Freiburg the most stinkiest compound ever produced called Thioacetone has been distilled in an experiment in the city causing fainting, vomiting and unconsciousness in a radius or around 1 km from the place of the experiment.
JYbKv TIL about the Kinsey Scale. Created by Alfred Kinsey in 1948. Kinsey thought that sexuality was fluid and could change over time. He created a scale 7 point scale with 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. The seventh point X is for asexuals.
05mp TIL that there is a secret swimming pool in the Mojave Desert that anyone who finds it can use.