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TIL: At least 15 repeat sex offenders in California have asked for surgical castration as a way of avoiding indefinite incarceration.

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XEPNk TIL that the Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain, is the largest wooden structure in the world
XQYr TIL Honey bees are not native to North America.
KORwQ TIL: 29 countries boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympics because New Zealand's involvement in playing rugby against South Africa.
nQrr TIL Mark Twain, noted abolitionist and women’s rights activist, paid for the schooling of black people, including paying one man’s tuition for Yale Law School.