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TIL that Denmark had animal brothels and that sex with animals was legal right up until last year

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90Qp TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed just as he was organizing a poor people’s campaign demanding universal basic income and criticizing the government for spending more on war and stifling social programs.
EgPDX TIL Benjamin Franklin had proposed a phonetic alphabet for spelling reform of the English language. He wanted to omit the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, as he had found them redundant.
a84N9 TIL "The Bladerunner" is a medical crime story that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie Blade Runner. The movie is based on a novel called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The producers just liked the name "Blade Runner" and went with it.
0wr6M TIL Tony Iommi, founding member of the Black Sabbath, replaced his finger tips with homemade prostheses made out of plastic after losing them on his last day at a steel factory , requiring him to downtune his guitar to play it, creating their signature sound and helping to define modern metal music.
XERmQ TIL Elvis had to be rescued from a bowl of chicken soup that he began to drown in.