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TIL that you can contract Leprosy from armadillos

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7DXM TIL A civilian guard was first posted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in 1925 in part to stop families from picnicking on the flat marble slab with views of the city. A military guard was first posted in 1926.
6E4jX TIL Yugoslav people still exist. Most of them were of mixed descent, being unable to identify as part of any specific ethnicity. Thus they chose to identify as “Yugoslavs”, and stuck with it.
1A9V TIL That dinosaur erotica exists (with actual titles like “Ravished By The Triceratops”) and is apparently pretty profitable
Y7RKW TIL that Liechtenstein sued Czechia for their stolen lands and castles they had owned for almost 700 years before their real estates were confiscated in Czechoslovakia after World War II under the so-called “Beneš decrees”. Czechia declined their claim, because of ethnic reasons.
G9Q5 TIL the mocumentary BORAT is banned in all Arab countries except Lebanon.