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TIL that male giraffes determine a female's fertility by tasting her urine.

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5YKb8 TIL about the 2005 IKEA riots in Edmonton, London. The new shop was open for only 30 minutes before a literal riot had broken out resulting in 5 hospitalisations and one stabbing.
BNDd TIL Puerto Ricans are voting today as to whether or not to become the 51st state.
OoyKY TIL: At the age of 7 and 8, future Argentinian serial killer Cayetano Godino was caught by police beating small children, but he was released and sent home due to his age. However, at age 10, his parents reported him to the police for masturbation, and he was jailed for 2 months for masturbating.
BgVND TIL about Arver v. United States, a U.S. Supreme Court decision which upheld the Selective Service Act of 1917. The court held that, citing Vattel's The Law of Nations (1758), a just government has a duty to protect its citizens, which obligates those citizens to render miliary service.
woZDY TIL: just before the infamous photo of LBJ being sworn as president aboard Airforce one. The photographer also took a photo of congressman and close friend of LBJ, Albert Thomas, suspiciously winking at LBJ whilst everyone else is still in shock. Even the photographer described it as “sinister”