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TIL In 2007 a Dutch man walked free in a bestiality case because the sheep didn’t testify in court

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v1Ykx TIL A satellite launched in 1978, and thought to be shutdown in 1997, was actually discovered in 2008 still be fully operational with plenty of fuel. Through efforts of crowd funding and approval from NASA, a group successfully established contact and fired the engines for the first time since 1987
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78AM TIL that Rwanda is the only country in the world with a female majority in parliament
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