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TIL 73.9% of North Americans are overweight

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DEMY TIL that Behind the Green Door (1972) was one of the first pornographic films to feature sex between a white actress (Marilyn Chambers) with a black actor (Johnnie Keyes). The porn industry and viewing public were shocked by the then-taboo spectacle of a white woman having sex with a black man.
0j75 TIL then PM of Australia, Ben Chifley, would regularly receive calls on his secret direct line from housewives trying to order meat as the number was similar to the local Butcher’s. Instead of embarrassing the callers, Chifley would take down their orders and pass it onto the Butcher.
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bLK0 TIL crows are smart as great apes and able to show: imagination, the anticipation of possible future events, to solve problems which require abstract reasoning. Problems which once were only thought possible by humans and great apes.
kNwW TIL: The Canadian RCMP systematically slaughtered the sled dogs of the Inuit until as late as the 1970s