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TIL A female donkey was acquitted on charges of bestiality at a trial in 1750 due to witnesses attesting to her virtue and good behaviour, but her co-accused human was sentenced to death.

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5J8P TIL Alcohol was found to be the most harmful drug to society and the fourth most harmful drug to users
DGp TIL that Hitler’s mother was thinking of having an abortion, when she was pregnant with him, but the doctor talked her out of it.
R7Kg7 TIL Operation Condor was a US backed intelligence operation in South America to squash Soviet influence. More than 400,000 people were taken as prisoners and 60,000-80,000 were killed.
nWkJP TIL that Signs was the first major Hollywood film to be shot after 9/11 having been filmed a few days after
jmbQ TIL since 1944, there’s a ship with 1.4 Kilo tonnes of vaguely live bombs lying in the Thames river in London.