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TIL that the vulture population in Gettysburg grew significantly after the civil war battle and the vultures that remain there are descendants of the ones that fed on soldiers.

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d8n4j TIL of Osborne v Ohio, in which the United states supreme court ruled 6-3 that possession of child pornography can be banned. Justices William Brennan, John Paul Stevens, and Thurgood Marshall dissented, arguing that possession of child porn is a constitutional right.
Lkgm0 TIL that in 2005, after Rob Schneider called movie critic Patrick Goldstein unqualified because he’d never won the Pulitzer Prize, famous film critic Roger Ebert told Schneider that, as a Pulitzer winner, HE was qualified to review the film, and that “Your movie sucks.”
4XW7N TIL Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan played the same character on the All My Children soap opera. Jordan landed the role of Reggie Porter after Boseman was fired from it for Refusing to Play a Racial Stereotype
VMXWk TIL a number of Norwegian cities donate Christmas trees to cities all over the UK, as a symbol of gratitude for British help and friendship during WWII.
D19QJ TIL DNA tests of 39 of Adolf Hitler's living relatives suggest he had both Jewish and African ancestors.