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TIL: Orange peels helped revive a Costa Rican forest

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OovXe TIL an American entrepreneur and magnate ran as an independent Presidential candidate in 1872, and later ran for the position of dictator of the USA, drawing record crowds to campaign rallies (despite charging an admission fee). Instead of shaking hands with other people, he shook hands with himself
4kdog TIL while not enforced, Alabama still had a law disallowing interracial marriages until the year 2000, but don't worry, marrying your first cousin was always perfectly legal
AD5vw TIL Uganda has the youngest population of any country in the world, with a median age of 15.
e0Mw4 TIL Words "Audio", "Video," and "Disco" mean "I hear", "I see", "I learn" in Latin
7bVL TIL of the Wolverine frog, a frog that breaks its own bones in order to project claws through its skin when threatened