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TIL Nativity scenes in Barcelona often traditionally contain one figure pooping off in the corner

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d8JZB TIL there is an animal called "musk deer", and its a deer with sabretooth
ne5lW TIL the first commercial fax service, between Lyon and Paris France in 1865, by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli, was created 11 years before the invention of the telephone.
R7VNa TIL of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery by travelling openly from Macon, Georgia to Boston. Ellen, who was light skinned, dressed as a man with a sling to hide the fact that she could not write and passed as William's slave owner. Eventually, they fled to Liverpool, England.
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