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TIL Seals have been known to have sex with penguins

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X1kr TIL only 8% of the outdoor statues of people in the US are of women
pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
x6Xy7 TIL while the fear that technological unemployment inevitably generates structural unemployment is known as the ‘Luddite Fallacy’, the Luddites themselves were actually put out of their jobs by new tech, and were brutally crushed when they revolted
lAOA TIL The United States Constitution is the only constitution from the 18th century that’s still in use.
grar4 TIL: Cyrus the great’s cylinder is the first recognized charter for human rights.