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TIL that Yuma High School’s mascot is the Criminal because the first school building was the old Yuma Territorial Prison.

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b6OOZ TIL that Appalachia has more salamanders than any other region on Earth. Of the 550 known salamander species in the world, 77 can be found there.
m9PY TIL that Uzbekistan used to/still does perform non-consensual sterilizations on women after their 2nd childbirth. They would do it by removing the entire uterus. This happened to over 10,000 innocent women.
v1ZlR TIL that in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant women national voting rights.
78MoX TIL That the most all callers in to the namesake show on Frasier (Original) were all well-known uncredited stars.
KBO9 TIL in 1973 NASA sent two spiders known as Arabella and Anita into space to see if the could spin a web without gravity. It took the spiders a couple days to figure out, but they eventually ended up making webs that were finer and more complex than their earth counterparts.