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TIL Olympic Gold Medals are 92.5% silver
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TIL that, aside from some obvious exemptions, like exposure of genitals for a sexual purpose to anyone who's underage, public nudity is not illegal anywhere in Canada. Being topless in public, nude sunbathing, swimming and even streaking have been upheld as legal through multiple court challenges.
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TIL A Spanish governor was unscrupulously and unjustly taxing the local Native American gold trade. The Jivaro tribe eventually killed him by pouring molten gold down his throat until his bowels burst.
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TIL 80% of the US population lives in the eastern half of the continental US
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TIL: James Richard Shinn was a master book thief. Using expert techniques and fraudulent documents, he would ultimately pillage world-class libraries to the tune of half a million dollars or more. A detective called him “the most fascinating, best, smartest crook I ever encountered.''
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TIL San Marino claims to be the oldest extant sovereign state as well as the oldest constitutional republic by gaining independence from the Roman empire in 301.