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TIL Ravens, Bees, Ants and Humans are the only animals capable of linguistic displacement- the ability to communicate about objects or events that are distant in space or time

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VM5Rp TIL that in 1862, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid those loyal to the Union up to $300 for every enslaved person freed. The largest individual payout was $18,000 for 69 slaves, which is equal to $556,024.34 in 2020.
j6MLM TIL Anthony Daniels (b. 1946) is the only actor to have either appeared in or been involved with all nine films in the Star Wars series. (C-3PO)
Z8rxv TIL the 1.5-mile-long, 22-foot-high, 4.5-foot-wide granite wall, that currently surrounds the Minnesota State Correctional Facility in St.Cloud, Minnesota, USA is the second largest wall built using inmate labor in the world. The Great Wall of China is the first.
l7JLB TIL the water brand Fiji is actually bottled and shipped from the island nation of Fiji
PAQJ TIL that the German government will not recognize Scientology as a religion. The organization has officially been labelled an “abusive business masquerading as a religion”