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TIL Baboons will kidnap feral dog puppies and raise them so that they will protect the baboon troop when they grow up.

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0w1xj TIL that in response to a literal overflow of corpses in Parisian cemeteries in 1780, it took the city 12 years to move between 6 and 7 million bodies to its former underground mine quarries which became the city’s catacombs.
Enmo TIL that hundreds of years ago most people would go to sleep early, wake up for about an hour in middle of night and do various things, and then go back to bed for a ‘second sleep’
lkX1 TIL Alabama did not repeal its ban on interracial marriage until 2000
D1jKV TIL that over half of all forested land on Earth is located in just five countries: Russia, Canada, the US, China, and Brazil.
9YVrM TIL about Winston County, Alabama, which during the American Civil War attempted to cede from the Confederacy and become a free republic, as the lack of any plantations and resulting rarity of slaveholders in the region gave the locals little reason to sympathize with the rebel cause