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TIL homosexuality has been legal in Turkey since 1858

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LQwEP TIL: The apartheid government in South Africa had paid kill squads that silenced those that spoke out. Seemingly regardless of public profile or race
KOGy9 TIL There is a shark that lives for several hundreds of years
LkOGp TIL of Katsuma Dan, a Japanese marine biologist who studied in the US before WW2 and who saved his marine lab with a note to advancing American forces asking to preserve his scientific work. (note in comments)
4XyPJ TIL that some birds spread fire by carrying lit sticks in order to find food
5VaO8 TIL about the Rocky Mountain Trench, a 1,000-mile linear valley running from Montana to the British Columbia/Yukon border, formed largely by geologic faulting.