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TIL an anti animal cruelty activist infiltrated an Idaho dairy farm. After exposing workers beating and sexually abusing cows, the Idaho legislature passed a bill making it illegal to film on farms and dairies.

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xVgYD TIL That Down Syndrome named as such because the term "Mongolian Idiocy" is deemed offensive and so the family name of the person who published paper about it, John Langdon Down, used to rename the syndrome and that happened long after he died. Down also used to call them "Mongolian Idiots"
awbkA TIL that in the US Civil War, the prisoner exchange system broke down over the CSA's treatment of the Union's black soldiers. Officially, the CSA tried them as rebellious slaves, a capital offense. In practice, they were often just killed instead of captured.
Rx1l TIL that two-thirds of all $100 bills are circulated outside of the United States.
5G5Q TIL Many nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to collect residents with dementia who try to leave.
M7BVK TIL that there are no longer any significant scientific barriers to a form of human cloning. In 2018 Chinese scientists successfully cloned two crab-eating macaques named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua--the first primates to ever be successfully cloned.