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TIL That the USA is the only country in the world which gives life-without-parole sentences to juvenile offenders.

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aw4GA TIL 'Friends' (NBC, 1994) was nearly a ripoff of 'Living Single (Fox, 1993) - albeit a really good one. 6 white friends in Manhattan vs 6 black friends in Brooklyn with similar themes across episodes.
R5g9Q TIL of the Siege of the city of Leningrad which occurred during WW2 and lasted for 872 days. It resulted in over 2 million deaths between the warring factions and the local civilian population. Some experts have classified it as genocide.
OoA8L TIL - Elephants are one of the few species on Earth with ‘Death Rituals’, whereby the herd will gather around the dead, cover the body and mourn the death. They have also been known to revisit the bones of the dead, sometimes years after the death.
4kRBR TIL until 2001 workers at Disneyland had to wear "communal underwear" while in character because normal undies would bunch up and become visible. After several outbreaks of pubic lice, the performers got the Teamsters Union involved and Disney finally agreed to employees wearing their own underpants
4k6eR TIL A Nigerian city Igbo-Ora has such a high amount of identical twins to the point where there is an annual festival celebrating twins, with over 1,000 pairs of them in attendance