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TIL that more US states allow sex with animals than allow gay marriage

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oEZE TIL that a cave diver who let go of the underwater guideline and got lost whilst exploring the Sterkfontein Caves, a vast complex of passages and pools in South Africa, lived for three weeks in the pitch dark before dying of starvation.
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1yj7 TIL that Jimmy Carter made the American microbew industry possible by legalizing the selling of malt, hops, and yeast to home brewers for the first time since Prohibition