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TIL that being gay isn’t illegal in North Korea, and that young men are often openly affectionate towards each other

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8J9a TIL that “Whose Line is it Anyways” streams all of its episodes on its website for free
rNmZx TIL that in 1889, the Brazilian military, alongside slave-owning elites, organized a coup to overthrow emperor Pedro II for abolishing slavery. In response, a group of freed slaves organized themselves into a militia known as the Black Guard in order to guarantee the safety of the Imperial Family.
7rQ87 TIL: Nazi Germany was planning to relocate all Jews to Madagascar. The plan was put on hold in 1940 after the Germans failed to defeat the British in the Battle of Britain (partly because they expected the British to surrender and use their navy in the evacuation), then later changed it to genocide.
JYrmQ TIL: Mexico had a complex legal and racial caste system. Art referred to as "casta" paintings were seen as a way to "codify racial groups"
9ZYX TIL that Buffalo Hump wasn’t the Comanche war chief’s real name. Americans refused to call him by his actual name which actually meant something along the lines of “erection that won’t go down.”