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TIL 34% of the black male population in Alabama has permanently lost the right to vote.

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VMWNZ TIL A Soviet scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov has attempted inseminate three female chimpanzees with human sperm as a part of his controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid. The purpose of the project was to "prove" evolution and use it as propaganda against the Russian Orthodox Church.
447J TIL lawyers from the Disney corporation denied a couple’s request to engrave Winnie Pooh on the gravestone of their stillborn child without paying royalties.
1br8 TIL hiding backwards messages in music is banned in California.
a1lZ TIL Instead of handouts, panhandlers in Albuquerque, NM are offered a job making $9/hr cash paid at end of workday for doing work for the city’s Solid Waste Dept. A 16-seat van run by a homeless shelter cruises the streets to offer jobs to panhandlers. Homeless can also call 311 to receive help.
XExKQ TIL Bryan Fuller, creator of the Hannibal TV show, grew up in a region called the Lewis Clark Valley that was stalked by an actual serial killer. He says adults knew who the killer was but no one stopped him