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TIL that black travellers in the 1950s had their own guidebook to the US telling them where it was safe to stop, shop, eat and even stay the night.

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mxM7P TIL that in 2014 an orangutan named Sandra was considered "a non-human person" by an Argentinian court, thus resulting in her release from the Buenos Aires Zoo to go to a sanctuary. But in 2016, an appellate court reversed the ruling of Justice Liberatori that Sandra was a non-human person
yVWVp TIL that the Mr. Mister song ‘Broken Wings’ has the same lyric ‘take these broken wings, and learn to fly’ as the Beatles song ‘Black Bird’. Apparently both groups were inspired by the same poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran
ADYo7 TIL that the world's oldest known dildo is a siltstone 20-centimeter phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago that was found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany.
E1kbd TIL of the Pennies In A Jar parable. The parable says that if a newlywed couple puts a penny in a jar every time they make love during the first year of marriage, and removes a penny every time after that, no matter how long the marriage lasts, they say, the jar will never be empty.
kOGkB TIL of penis fencing, a mating behavior in hermaphroditic species of flatworm. Two flatworm “fight” and try to penetrate the other's epidermis and inject sperm into them (aka "traumatic insemination"). The loser becomes fertilized and is known as the "mother", while the victor becomes the "father"