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TIL in Qatar homosexual acts between adult females are legal whereas homosexual acts between adult males are illegal.

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o6A8 TIL that John Horwood, a stalker convicted of murdering a young woman in 1821, was sentenced to dissection by a court in Bristol, UK. A surgeon peeled and consequently tanned his skin and made it into a book called “the skin of John Horwood”, recording his findings within.
9YNDB TIL that animal populations are growing in Chernobyl since humans left. Among them, a herd of Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild horse in the world, introduced in 1998.
ZvrY TIL one man was caught twice on To Catch a Predator. The second time was less than a week after his court date for the first one. It was so soon that Chris Hansen recognized him.
8aB94 TIL Actor Kit Harington is a direct descendant of Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the plot to blow up parliament. Kit also plays Catesby in the BBC drama Gunpowder, retelling the story behind the plot.
wm11 TIL That some gifted children suffer from depression because they’ve already realized death is inevitable and life is meaningless.