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TIL in Cuba, picking up hitchhikers is mandatory for government vehicles, if passenger space is available.

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LkWWd TIL that "celebrity psychiatrist" Dr. Isaac Herschkopf manipulated a patient into cutting off his family, giving him his home, signing over his bank account, and amending his will to leave everything to the doctor's wife. Yet Dr. Herschkopf still maintains his medical license in New York City today.
aw6Z0 TIL: A lot of sand is Parrotfish poop. They each poop around 800 lbs of sand a year that ends up making our beaches.
5YEeP TIL that Saturn has a moon that bears a striking resemblance to the Death Star from Star Wars. This moon, Mimas, wasn't observed in detail until the Voyager spacecraft captured photos in 1980, three years after the release of the first Star Wars movie.
vE98 TIL bestiality was not illegal in Washington until 2005, when a man named Kenneth Pinyan died from internal injuries from having receptive anal sex with a horse on film. At a horse brothel. TIL there’s a thing called a horse brothel.
XvNr TIL the number people are most likely to state when asked to give a random number between 0 and 100 is 37.