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TIL There is only one pig in Afghanistan

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awpg9 TIL that Cards Against Humanity joked that they could buy an island with the money they donate to charity, so they bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. They named it ‘Hawaii 2’ because “it’s on the Maine land.”
5Vwjn TIL about Oscar Micheaux’ 1920 film WITHIN OUR GATES which is the earliest known surviving feature directed by an African American as well as one of the oldest surviving rebuttals to the racism of D. W. Griffith’s film BIRTH OF A NATION
RJY7 TIL: Benjamin Franklin inadvertently electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a Turkey.
QDNk TIL The game show Match Game was set to be cancelled and with nothing left to lose a question writer for the show started writing risque questions. As a result the ratings picked back up and the show was uncancelled.
wLMlP TIL Michelangelo depicted a perfect anatomical cross section of the human brain in the "God Creating Adam" painting, as well as the painting "The Separation of Light from Darkness," within God’s chest and throat, researchers have found a precise depiction of the human spinal cord and brain stem.