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TIL Homosexuality has been decriminalized in France since 1791

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WkQa4 TIL that the Count in Sesame Street does not count all the time to teach children numbers! In folklore, vampires had arithmomania, or an obsession with numbers. This derives from the old superstition that throwing poppy seeds on the ground stopped vampires because they had to count them all first.
b6Er9 TIL a country called Republic of Indian Stream existed between USA and Canada, for less than three years between 1832 and 1835. It is now part of New Hampshire.
a8w7Z TIL that Sesame Street was initially banned in several states, such as Mississippi, for casting black and hispanic actors.
gr9Ly TIL two Navajo women served as scouts with the Army’s 20th Infantry Regiment in the summer of 1886. They may have been the first women to enlist as combatants with the US Army.
xNv7 TIL in the Yellow River in China there are so many corpses to be found that it is lucrative to recover them and sell the bodies back to the families of the deceased for 500$