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TIL a cup of apple juice has more calories than a cup of Coca Cola

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ADZJw TIL that Standing Bear (c. 1829 – 1908) was a Ponca Native American chief, who successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have the right of habeas corpus.
ZZl4 TIL that tricky, weak male cuttlefish change their skin color in order to appear female, they then sneak past the unaware males and mate with the females, occasionally several, right under their mate’s nose.
78ByZ TIL in 2023 a Canadian judge dismissed a case of criminal harassment against a man and ruled that: "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian".
vxG7 TIL it is illegal to not stand up for the national anthem in Thailand
wMZJ TIL: Of MSG Roy Benavidez who was shot in the face, head, right leg, stomach, thigh, bayoneted, and hit in the back by grenade fragments during one of his tours of Vietnam was about to be placed into a body bag when he spit in the doctors face to signal that he was still alive.