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Til: The United States ratified the Marrakesh Treaty back in 2019 which joined the united states in a treaty that facilitates access to publications for those with print disabilities(blindness or visual impairments).

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VMn08 TIL that crows are as intelligent as a 7 year old child. They have an uncanny memory for human faces. They can hold grudges against some of us—and tell other crows about it, too.
mAPO TIL: A North Korean official was executed using a flamethrower.
6mrm TIL In 2001, Cowboy Bebop was the first anime to play on Adult Swim.
XJ0X TIL a book entitled Atlanta Nights was written by a group of sci-fi authors to be intentionally bad as a test for the publisher PublishAmerica. It included a chapter containing computer generated random sentences, and chapter 17 and 4 are word for word identical. The publisher accepted it.
YpdbZ TIL that Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s great-grandfather was an African slave who later became a general to emperor Peter the Great