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TIL Los Angeles and its suburbs, home to 19 million people, is the only megacity in the world where mountain lions live side by side with humans.

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nRro TIL under Brehon law in early Medieval Ireland, women had many of the same rights as men and when married were allowed to keep property they bought themselves and retain it in case of divorce
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eDR5 TIL that after WWII the CIA recruited Nazi war criminals, who had worked on mind control/brainwashing techniques in Germany, to assist them with their own mind control experiments on unwitting US citizens.
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