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TIL Two Brown Bears were Caught Performing Oral Sex in Croatia

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OGOB1 TIL that the United Kingdom, the nation that invented the first tanks during WWI, was seriously considering retiring its entire main battle tank fleet as of 2020.
QNeok TIL the name of the Australian outback town Coober Pedy, where almost everyone lives underground, translates to whitefellas hole in Aboriginal
1jA7 TIL there was a roman emperor who had been reported to be “delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles”, regularly wearing makeup and offering a vast sum of money to a physician capable of giving him a sex change
0wrjR TIL that child beauty pageants are illegal in France to prevent the hyper-sexualization of young children. Punishment can be up to two years in prison.
VMPmk TIL In WW II, German submarines used the lights from US coastal cities to see US shipments. Coastal cities refused to limit lighting as was done in Europe due to tourism, and as a result much shipping was destroyed.