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TIL that oral sex was illegal in 11 US states until 2003

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oRKD8 TIL that the Voynich manuscript was written in a completely unknown script, with an alphabet that appears nowhere other than on its own pages.
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oZa7 TIL that despite later becoming an icon of the south, the confederate flag was never the national flag of the Confederate States of America
rRvAo TIL NASA has online 3D models of all of the planets in our solar system, as well as several moons, probes, and the ISS.
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