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TIL This Tiny Island has more kinds of ferns than the North America and Europe

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yjDl TIL Wild Elephants Live Up to an Average of 39 Years Longer Than Their Zoo Counterparts
ay6Z TIL influential sci-fi writer William Gibson once wrote a 4500-word article on Singapore titled ‘Disneyland with the Death Penalty’ for Wired. The magazine was banned in the city-state after the issue’s release.
rWEe TIL the Guillotine was still the official method of execution in France until the death penalty was abolished… in 1981.
EVm0 TIL that after arriving in Los Angeles at 19, a broke Charlize Theron tried to cash a check from her mother to pay for rent, but the teller refused. She got into a shouting match with him, drawing the attention of a talent agent behind her, who introduced her to casting agents and an acting school.
Lvo0 TIL that in 2006, a Tennessee woman shot her sleeping husband in the back with a shotgun. She received 60 days in a mental health facility and less than one year of probation. She also retained full custody of his children.