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TIL that gay sex is legal in Vatican City

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KOALJ TIL Chris Brown is currently banned from entereng the UK, Australia, and New Zealand due to his criminal history.
VMZ5p TIL that British merchant seaman in WW2 received no pay from the moment their ship sank. If the seaman was fortunate to survive the sinking, the shipping company regarded it as "non-working time"
699BJ TIL about Butteri, Italian cowboys. When Buffalo Bill toured in Italy with his Wild West Show in 1890, the Butteri, led by Augusto Imperiali, challenged his troupe and won proving far more experience.
grlZ9 TIL the Beatles’ record sales helped fund research that led to the development of CT scans (computerized tomography)
66l8 TIL that while the Nilgai (a kind of antelope) are considered vermin and pests in India, where they originate, they are specially imported thousands of miles as exotic animals for Texan ranches. A single ranch now has over ten thousand.