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TIL oral, date, same-sex, and male rape is not considered rape by the FBI

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Xxb6 TIL the Pony Express only lasted from April 3, 1860 to October 1861, before the telegraph made it obsolete.
OGO6a TIL that a tiny songbird called the Northern Wheatear (weighing only about 25 grams) migrates nearly 29,000 kilometers round trip each year, from Alaska to sub-Saharan Africa and back, making one of the longest known migrations relative to body size of any songbird
LQ1a9 TIL that typewriters used to not have an exclamation mark on them, or even the number 1, both had to be approximated by typing other characters in their place. 1 was a lowercase L and exclamation marks were the combination of an apostrophe and period.
16ZmO TIL Rosa Parks hired Johnnie Cochran to sue Outkast and LaFace Records for Outkast’s 1998 Song “Rosa Parks”
5Y0wP TIL about the ancient Hambach Forest of which only 10 % remains. The remaining part is planned to be cleared to make way for the surface coal mine operation in the area. There have been ongoing protests and occupations in the forest to prevent this since 2012