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TIL Vatican City has the lowest age of consent and highest crime rate in Europe

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9Y0V7 TIL of Rusik, a Russian police cat. He was adopted by customs officers and sniffed vehicles and travellers for poached sturgeon roe. Rusik was later hit by a car he had previously found sturgeon in. Police suspected it was a revenge killing, due to how effective Rusik was at uncovering contraband.
KYDBB TIL After her space shuttle flight, astronaut Lisa Nowak was diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses, including Asperger's disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder. NASA declined to comment whether it identified the disorders when she joined NASA's astronaut corps
6EMVQ TIL The concept for the internet started in the 1960s, when MIT’s J.C.R. Licklider popularized the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers, computer scientists then developed the concept of “packet switching,” a method for effectively transmitting electronic data
gr6DA TIL, that in the US, President Lincoln made the first federal observance of Thanksgiving on August 6, 1863. The holiday was changed to the last Thursday in November a few months later.
4vn5 TIL one of Brigham Young’s 55 wives bravely divorced him and wrote the best seller “Wife No. 19,” an autobiography lambasting Mormonism and polygamy.