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TIL a man faked his own death to avoid rape charges and was discovered to be alive when he was elected mayor in a small Mexican village

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DQwkg TIL Human females can be impregnated by different males in seperate sexual intercourse during the same ovulation
8eKvL TIL China Uses AI Camera to Capture Jaywalkers and Publicly Shame Them
grP88 TIL Finland used a lot of resources and logistics during WW II to bring the fallen to their home parishes for a proper funeral, instead of using mass graves in the battlefield.
9wxGQ TIL that Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro correctly speculated about the existence of germs thousands of years prior to the discovery of germ theory.
QJPdE TIL a partridge is a ground-nesting bird with zero interest in pear trees.