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Today I learned that slavery is still legal in America, as long as you commit a crime.

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ONL6 Montreal’s subway trains use brake shoes made from wood soaked in peanut oil. They are quieter and don’t wear out metal wheels as much as more conventional alternatives.
kJrj7 TIL The bloodiest day in U.S. Military History was June 6, 1944 with 2,500 deaths. (D-day). The bloodiest day for U.S. born soldiers was Sept. 17, 1862 with 3,675 deaths. (Antietam)
Yp1GB TIL that Adam West and Frank Gorshin were once kicked out of an orgy because they stayed in their Batman characters during the orgy.
w77M TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
oVkY TIL that according to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the sun orbits the earth.