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TIL the Letters Q, W, and X were ince illegal in Turkey

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5YkWk TIL that when a male black vulture cheats the entire flock beats the hell out of him.
16olV TIL that Fecal transplant actually exist.
4XpRa TIL 2 rats will stop playing with each other if the bigger one doesn't let the smaller one win at least 30% of the time
RJ4a TIL when scientists first realized that American gay men and Africans in France were both suffering from the same disease (AIDS), French researchers sent over a sample to be tested. But a scientist with a grudge against the French institute switched out the sample, setting research back years.
P14Ow TIL of Drapetomania, a falsely proposed mental illness based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape