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TIL Caxias do Sul, Brazil is home to a makeshift slum built specifically for stray dogs and cats housed by a animal rights group. With a population of 1000s, it mimics the conditions the country's most impoverished live in, even monetary restraints have caused problems with properly feeding them.

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4YXN TIL that a teenager fooled an entire school, multiple police officers, and a car dealership that he was the youngest State Representative ever. He was escorted to the school, given a tour, and spoke to the high school students about being involved in politics.
wLp11 TIL about kubaba a Mesopotamian bartender who later became the first woman ruler in history.
Y7BdA TIL that in Canada, they don't sentence criminals, like murderers, life in prison without parole as they consider it as cruel and unusual punishment
GBYN TIL Germany has ‘Tauchgondeln’ [diving gondolas]. They’re tourist attractions where a pressurized room on a pole gets lowered down into the sea. They’re unique to Germany and there are only four of them.
7GxP TIL that the FBI once ran a child pornography site in an attempt to identify pedophiles