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TIL that there is DNA evidence indicating Humans and Neanderthals interbred

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mxM7P TIL that in 2014 an orangutan named Sandra was considered "a non-human person" by an Argentinian court, thus resulting in her release from the Buenos Aires Zoo to go to a sanctuary. But in 2016, an appellate court reversed the ruling of Justice Liberatori that Sandra was a non-human person
jNOGQ TIL that when Argentina were poised to invade Chile in 1978 during Operation Soberanía, Chile drew up plans to poison the water supply of Buenos Aires in retaliation [article in Spanish]
x6EPg TIL: There is a real life "Death Note", where Japanese women wish how and why they want their spouse’s to die.
ZpZOG TIL: Of the existence of "Road Trains" mostly used in Australia - they're massive semi-trucks that usually pull up to 4 trailers at once but the world record is a "train" of 112 trailers (1.5km) long.
awBDA TIL that Ohio and Michigan "went to war" in 1835 in a border dispute called the Toledo War. No one was killed, but one man got stabbed.