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TIL that the US publishes a quarterly list of names of people who renounced citizenship to "shame or embarrass" them

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WX8d TIL Justice Clarence Thomas has only spoken one time in the last eight years during oral arguments in the Supreme Court. The one time he spoke was to crack a joke on Yale college.
LkNrv TIL that cursive handwriting has already been removed from the curricula of 41 states.
l8BA TIL alligator blood kills HIV
D1LDr TIL that in 1998 the British soap Coronation Street debuted Hayley Patterson, who was the UK's first transgender soap character, and her storylines are given partial credit for the UK's 2004 Gender Recognition Act
b6OA9 TIL that India has the world's largest population of wild tigers, with an estimated 70% of the global tiger population residing in the country. The Bengal tiger, which is found primarily in India, is not only the national animal of India but also the largest tiger subspecies.