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TIL: Homosexuality is still a crime in 38 African countries.

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kJGkW TIL that the architect of the Canadian War Museum designed it so that the sun would cast a beam on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Ottawa at 11:00 on November 11.
P8bw TIL that traveling in Jim Crow-era America was so difficult and dangerous for African-Americans that The Negro Motorist Green Book was written to help them.
Me4Va TIL the only known recording of a person born in the 18th century was a recitation of a Hamlet: "Give every man thy ear but few thy voice." The speaker was Helmuth von Moltke, a man known for saying very little.
aWaJ TIL John Tyler the 10th President of the United States has two living grand-children. He was born in 1790.
woj1E TIL about Testicle Festivals where the featured activity is the consumption of various animal testicles.