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TIL only humans have pubic hair

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eOwJ TIL: Finlands current president survived 2004 tsunami in Thailand by climbing a utility pole with his son.
Oo78a TIL Between 1950 and 1970, Foggy Bottom was transformed from a run-down industrial slum to a high-rent luxury apartment district, considered one of the best downtown residential sections in Washington DC
75xr TIL The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated had the number plate 11 11 18. This assassination lead to the start of the First World War which concluded on 11/11/18.
KwVa TIL that Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker voices “Skips” on the regular show (x-post from r/regularshow)
dgw7 TIL The Massachusetts Bay Company had a “Stubborn Child Law” that allowed parents to put their defiant children to death