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TIL: In Mississippi, punishable by jail time of not less than 30 days, it’s illegal to have a second illegitimate child.

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EV0p TIL Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
oBNaK TIL that the elephant's closest relative besides manatees and dugongs is a rabbit-sized mammal called the hyrax
gMwN9 TIL about Issei Sagawa, a Japanese cannibal who murdered and ate a woman in 1981. He never served a proper sentence. In this article, Sagawa openly talks about his crime and urges to commit cannibalism again.
4x9w TIL a Black Robin named Old Blue has become the mother of her entire species when she was the last fertile female in a group of 5 Robins. There are now 250 Black Robins on the Chatham Islands, and have raised their status from Critically Endangered to Endangered.