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TIL about George Francis Train, a man who ran for president on a platform of "Spread-Eagleism."

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69yj7 TIL that Niger has highest total fertility rate and its more than 3 times the replacement rate
xVp4b TIL that there is a luchador that wrestles as Máximo (formerly Máximo Sexy), a stereotypically effeminate gay character, though he's straight and married to a woman in real life
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