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TIL that in Cuba a person can get more jail time for killing a cow (10 years in prison) than killing a human and that eaters of illegal beef can get three months to one year in prison

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1aXdV TIL that the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry dated a deaf women actually hired a deaf actor. Her name is Marlee Matlin, and she is the only deaf performer to win an academy award.
XEnej TIL Before he became a children's entertainer, Blippi filmed himself pooping on people as part of his act.
N7kl8 TIL After the Watergate scandal broke, Richard Nixon still won the 1972 election by winning 49 out of 50 states for a whopping 520 electoral votes.
4XpKX TIL Betty Robinson, who won the first Olympic 100m for women in 1928 at just 16, was later involved in a plane crash. A man who discovered her wrongly thought she was dead and drove her to an undertaker. She awoke from her coma 7 months later, before returning to win a relay gold in 1936.
KZPw TIL Koko, the gorilla who scientists have been teaching sign language, is very interested in nipples and routinely asks the human researchers around her to show her their nipples