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TIL PETA thinks Pokemon promotes animal cruelty

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6EjMm TIL Lake Tahoe is home to the oldest petroglyphs ever discovered in North America and a mummy three times as old as the Egyptian mummy King Tut.
ANmXx TIL that the phrase immaculate conception does not refer to Jesus but his mother Mary who Catholics believe was also born free of original sin.
d8MEd TIL that "Nguyen," the most common Vietnamese surname, is the 9th most common surname in the Czech Republic/Czechia.
YdvG TIL there is a planned theme park in London called ‘London Paramount’ that will cost £2bn and be 1.5x the size of Disneyland and have BBC themed rides such as Doctor Who
GVLJ TIL that a Jewish tradition where a rabbi sucks the blood from a freshly-circumcised penis, has caused many babies to contract herpes. 2 have died and 2 have suffered brain damage since 2000.