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TIL most black neighborhoods in Wisconsin are actually prisons.

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b9YeZ TIL that Karl Marx, George Michael and Douglas Adams are all buried in the same cemetery (Highgate Cemetery) in London
ZOGR TIL Joseph Müller was sentenced to death for telling a political joke in Nazi Germany
xVbx1 TIL that the G-spot is named after the German doctor Ernst Gräfenberg, due to his pioneering research in the area.
b6XNN TIL crows in South Korea memorize when and where people will feed them as part of a shamanistic tradition called keurigi. It is theorized they use their facial recognition abilities to know who will feed them and the crows make annual migrations to the shrines where these ceremonies take place
4kmWR TIL about Moe Berg, a baseball player who learned 7 languages from Princeton and a law degree from Columbia. He worked as a spy in Europe during WW2, and was ordered to attend a lecture by Heisenberg and shoot him if he determined the Germans were close to the bomb. He determined that they were not.