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TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos

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prJQ TIL that if New Orleans were a country, its gun homicide rate would rank second highest in the world
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r5W1 TIL Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror. The only other animals that can do this are dolphins, great apes, and humans.
e0J0b TIL of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, who was sentanced to 126 years in prison for killing 11 people, then was sentanced to another 400 years for killing another 60+ inmates, but was released after 34 years as per Brazillian law
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