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TIL: Now-extinct giant sloths dug burrows which still exist.
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TIL that the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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TIL about Elephant Mosquitos. Despite being the largest genus of mosquito, their diet consists exclusively of honeydew, sap, and other sweets. The only exception to is their larvae, which greedily eats the larvae of other mosquitoes.
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TIL a man named Painless Parker created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon. He charged 50 cents for each extraction and promised that if it hurt, he would pay the patient $5.
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TIL that when Sony installed rootkits on millions of devices as a form of DRM, DRM circumvention laws meant it was illegal to try and remove it.
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TIL: Sweet Potatoes are a commercial crop in Ontario, Canada