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TIL Oral sex was illegal in Canada… Until 1969

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wRQ6 TIL humans hadn’t detected any planets outside of our solar system until 1991, just 26 years ago. Before then, we had no evidence that planets existed around any other star in the universe.
BbGx TIL that the lyrics of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” are officially credited to his childhood friend Vincent “Tata” Ford, who ran a soup kitchen in the Jamaican ghetto where Marley grew up. Marley gave Ford credit for writing the song so that the royalty payments could keep the soup kitchen open.
KOgKG TIL in the UK a White Christmas is defined by as, “one snowflake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25 December somewhere in the UK”
eAJ4 TIL when you give a thumbs up, the divot at the base of your thumb and wrist is called a “snuff box” ( this is actually the medical term)
ldbA TIL there are more Norwegians in America than there are in Norway