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TIL In Japan, you're guilty until proven guilty.

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EgnM0 TIL that part of Icelandic Christmas lore is that a giant cat, the Yule Cat will kill you if you don't give or receive clothing on Christmas.
9Gxp TIL that Prison inmates are teaching testy dogs civility. There may be no better place for bite-prone animals to receive the constant care they need to break out of their own prisons. The men who train the animals learn responsibility, and acquire a skill they can use outside the prison walls.
l7OdN TIL in 2007 a Cherokee council voted 'overwhelmingly' to strip 2,800 people of tribal citizenship, defining citizenship as 'by blood'. After a judgment in 2017 the Tribe began accepting and processing applications for citizenship for the descendents of Freedmen.
JYJVm TIL the bacteria which caused the black death, first infected Oriental Fleas by blocking their foregut, keeping them hungry and biting, to facilitate it's rapid transmission to human hosts.
pEMO TIL that an African man won a court case in the 1650s that let him keep another African, John Castor, as his slave. That means that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man.