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TIL that there was a parrot named Alex, who was the first and only animal ever to ask a self-aware question

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0l9R TIL the Italian government is offering all 18 year olds a €500 ‘culture bonus,’ which can be spent on books, concert tickets, theatre tickets, cinema tickets, museum visits and even trips to the country’s national parks.
D11VD TIL about The Charlie Sheen Effect which involved record levels of STD testing after Charlie disclosed his HIV status.
W6b4 TIL In the early 1970s, a schoolteacher England assigned a class science project in which his students were to find out the blood types of their parents to deduce their own blood types. Instead, 30 per cent of the students discovered their dads were not their biological fathers.
m1O1v TIL the state motto for Hawai'i is "Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono" and it translates to "the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness".
rNeQM TIL that in 1958 interracial marriage was a felony in Virginia