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TIL that South Africa is the only country in the world to have both polygamy and same sex marriage legally recognised

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N7rOJ TIL that bowhead whales are the longest-living mammals, able to live to around 200 years due to genes that allow for the repair of DNA. However, many of them do not live to old age as they are a common target for whaling.
ADNRB TIL The Duck Tales theme song spawned from the song Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters written by Mark Mueller
Oo4RX TIL that President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that the 1983 film The Day After "left me greatly depressed" and that it changed his mind on the policy on nuclear war. Reagan's memoirs drew a direct line from the film to his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.
WkVXN TIL that until 1930, Brazil was actually called The "United States of Brazil". That means that until relatively recently, there was a USA and a USB in the American continent, one North one South.
vPB4D TIL that one of the last songs to play at the World Trade Center before the towers collapsed was a cover of "How Deep is your Love"