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TIL that interracial marriages were illegal in Alabama until a vote in 2000; but even then 40% of the voters wanted to keep it illegal.

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ADjGd TIL deers are closer evolutionarily to whales than horses
6rjJ TIL That the Japanese school year is 240 days long, giving their students three more years of total instruction received compared to an American High School grad.
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
x6KKg TIL in 2022, BMW offered subscriptions for customers in the U.K. that would enable them to use their car's heated front seats (£15 per month) or heated steering wheel (£10 per month).
1EOV TIL until 1975 a French husband had the legal right to kill a cheating wife. Honor killings for adultery were legal until 1991 in Brazil and until 2005 in Haiti.