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TIL the Paris Mosque helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs

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RdZ6 TIL that in the Netherlands there are dozens of public facilities where you can bring recreational drugs including weed, cocaine and ecstasy to test if they are safe
dPkB TIL the company that created the cgi effects for the film Interstellar (2014) had to change their program because all effects software assumed light goes in a strait line.
epdd6 TIL there is a species of oceanic dolphin known as the false killer whale. Their name comes from them having a skull similar to that of a killer whale (orca). Although they are part of the same family, they are not closely related.
R5vZ7 TIL kangaroos have three vaginas, and have the ability to constantly stay pregnant. Male kangaroos often have double pronged penises for double penetration.
6E7D8 TIL that one of the documents the US Constitution is predominantly modeled after is the Iroquois Constitution, an extremely sophisticated and logically consistent document that governed the 5 Native American tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people.