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TIL In Central Africa, there are bushmeat preferences. Women prefer elephant, while men tend to prefer bats and gorilla. Both men and women's favorite is porcupine

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78b8M TIL In the late 1930's, several Jewish Mafia groups disrupted the influence of pro-Nazi groups in the US, like the German-American Bund, by beating up several of its members at various rallies. A NY state judge tacitly approved these attacks, on the condition that no one was killed.
75Qr TIL in 2007, a new parking garage in Germany ended up with two parking bays that had a peculiar shape and required a complicated parking maneuver in order to park there. Officials declared them Men’s Parking Spaces to discourage unskilled drivers from attempting the maneuver.
enjg TIL After the battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. The Parthians took the Roman commander, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and allegedly poured molten gold down his throat because of his renowned greed.
0dbnR TIL McKissick Island, was once in the middle of the Missouri River and part of Nebraska, but became attached to Missouri after an 1880’s flood shifted the river’s course. Missouri made a suit to claim it, but the Supreme Court ruled it still belonged to Nebraska.
l7op1 TIL Arctic foxes strongly prefer to dive in a north-easterly direction. They are more likely to make a kill if they jumped along the invisible axis, especially when their prey was hidden by snow. If they pounced to the north-east, they killed on 73% of jumps compared with 18% in other directions .