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TIL there is a species of deer in Germany who won’t cross the border where the Iron Curtain once stood, even though that border has been gone physically for 20 years.

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yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
x6rZD TIL that a Japanese artist paints with Microsoft Excel. Tatsuo Horiuchi prefers the spreadsheet to real canvas and paint, or drawing software, because it has "more functions and is easier to use".
YK9Z TIL: Antoine Dodson, the “Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife” guy announced he is “no longer into homosexuality” and become a Black Hebrew Israelite, who believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites.
OpQX TIL that in 2015, 2 men escaped paying for their £140 (€195) taxi fare by bringing a mannequin wearing a hat with them into the car. After they both got out (leaving the mannequin) they told the cabbie where their “sleeping friend” lived and that he would settle up payment at the end of the journey.
M7wXB TIL in 1970, actress Patty Duke was sleeping with 3 men prior to the birth of her son. Desi Arnaz Jr, actor John Astin and promoter Michael Tell. She married Tell, told her son Arnaz Jr was the father and John Astin ended up adopting the child, who would go on to become actor Sean Astin.