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TIL for years the Catholic Church has been trying to boycott Girl Scout Cookies & the Girl Scouts of America.

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89AV TIL police cars in New South Wales take photographs and log license plates, locations and timestamps for every car that passes them on the road. The data is stored for 5 years.
VlpQ TIL The Romans had so much sex they drove a plant they used for birth control into extinction
7ZbM TIL dwarf mammoths, around 1m tall, lived on Crete 3 million years ago
N7ng1 TIL from my daughter that gas pump payments are not just automatic transactions enabled by the user like an ATM machine, but an event where the clerk inside the store is alerted and must actually confirm your card is authorized before allowing you to pump your gas.
OodWR TIL about Flordelis, a Brazilian pastor and congresswoman. She married one of her 51 adopted children in 1998 and then in 2020 was charged with orchestrating his murder, at the hands of two more of her adopted children