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TIL That British Film Censors have a 'Mull of Kintyre' rule. You cannot show a male member on UK Television more erect than the Mull of Kintyre

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VMo90 TIL that in 1995 a Florida man buried 9 "unwanted" day-old puppies alive in a paper bag, in full view of their tethered mother. Mama dog broke free later and began frantically digging the ground and retrieving puppies, which luckily attracted the attention of a neighbor who phoned police.
BEee TIL that a 65-acre “Jungle” is the largest of many Silicon Valley homeless encampments, home for up to 175 people at any one time. Periodically cleared by authorities, it is painstakingly rebuilt by residents.
Ypbkr TIL that the Karen are an actual ethnic group of approximately 7.5 million Sino-Tibetan peoples. While the group as a whole is heterogeneous and disparate, some of the Karen, led primarily by the Karen National Union (KNU), have been in a constant state of war since the 1940s.
N9dN TIL that in Ancient Greece, they used pottery shards to wipe their ass after a dump. Sometimes these pottery fragments would be inscribed with the name of an enemy before being used.
gMRy4 TIL there was a short-lived 16th century German colony in the Americas: Klein Venedig. Its capital, Neu Augsburg, is present-day Coro in Venezuela, which is the country’s second-oldest city.