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TIL that a Mythbusters experiment once resulted in a cannibalized mouse

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78lgP TIL in 1981, Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. The ban wasn't enforced till 2007. In 2017 600,000 were still living in slavery, and only 1 person was prosecuted for owning slaves.
4k4BJ TIL that the Air Ministry imposed a blackout of all man made lights across London because they forecasted they would be targeted for night time air raids. This was before war was declared.
dD4jE TIL about Swedish A-tractors, a loophole that allows restricted cars to be registered as tractors that can be driven at 16, and has created a whole sub-culture of car mods
1a9W7 TIL in the 1870s, an 11 time Mexican President exiled to Staten Island, partnered with New Jersey inventor to sell gum to fund an army to return to power once more. After he gave up and returned to Mexico, his partner went on to create what we know as chewing gum sticks today.
E1WZp TIL from 1975 to 1998, a version of the Confederate battle flag appeared in the coat of arms and flag of Americana, São Paulo, a city settled by Confederate expatriates.