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TIL GEICO actually means Government Employees Insurance Company

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d8YY8 TIL Morocco was once a haven for gay Americans and Europeans who wanted to bang inside buildings or dungeons. As back then the society was full of paradoxes, people were able to be free.
oRnrW TIL that when BET, Black Entertainment Television, aired the TV show The Wire, they edited out much of the second season, which focuses on mostly white dock workers
JXOB TIL Jack Abernathy was known as “Catch-‘em-alive Jack” because he would catch wolves by jumping off a horse, shoving his hand in the wolf’s mouth so it was unable to bite down, and holding it down until it became docile. He performed this trick for Teddy Roosevelt during a hunt in Oklahoma in 1905.
71o7 TIL in 1929 the US supreme court voted 8 -1 in favor a Euginics program requiring forced sterilization of citizens deemed not smart enough to reproduce
yVjee TIL that only male narwhals have the famous narwhal “unicorn” horn, so almost all depictions of narwhals in pop culture are males. In addition, the “horns” are actually tusks, or external teeth similar to a human’s pointy canine teeth.