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TIL Karl Marx was known for his extravagant and wasteful spending

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4kKWJ TIL not only was animal abuse illegal before child abuse, but the SPCA helped with the first child abuse case in America
Q9xL TIL when the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn’t upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.
5BZ9 TIL that in 1913, Nebraska outlawed oral sex - in an ironic twist the act that was passed to criminalize oral sex was the 69th act to be passed that year. The act has since been known as “act 69”.
xVAo0 TIL US has actually HSR running at max speed 240kmph, though its average speed is only 135kmph
PNaL TIL Researchers at Cambridge University discovered that sheep prefer to go through doors with a picture of a smiling human over a door with a picture of an angry human