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TIL the closest living relative of whales are hippos

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Bgnod TIL that Louisiana’s Angola Prison — one of the largest maximum-security prisons in the U.S. — host a public rodeo twice a year where inmates compete in dangerous events like bull riding and “convict poker,” sitting at a table while a bull charges them.
Vvek TIL in 1862, Abraham Lincoln wrote to the cotton workers of Manchester, UK to thank them for their stance on anti-slavery.
dllj TIL you only need 27% of the US population to vote for you to become president.
JemB TIL That on an English political program the presenter’s Golden Retriever sometimes wanders around the set.
oR9ME TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became full citizens of the nation - before many Jewish communities in Europe...