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TIL the only country that prohibits killing horses for consumption is the US

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bOB4 TIL Peter The Great accepted his wife be executed after she killed her newborn baby. When he showed up at the execution, the crowd assumed he’d stop the execution, but instead he watched her executed, kissed her detached head and used it to explain to the crowd the intracacies of neck anatomy.
d8Pjr TIL That the October Russian revolution actually occurred in November as the Russians did not change to the Julian calendar until the Soviet era
YpVQG TIL the first mention of the “white whale” in Moby Dick is nearly 200 pages into the book.
K4JB TIL That OJ Simpson is up for parole this year after serving 9 years in prison.
OG0V6 TIL that the American folk song Turkey In The Straw (the "ice cream truck song") originated in minstrel shows, where it often contained severely bigoted language