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TIL: The consensus is that octopuses are most likely sentient.

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RpD6 TIL China returns all illegal immigrants from North Korea which usually imprisons them in a short term facility. Women who are suspected of being impregnated by Chinese fathers are subjected to forced abortions; babies born alive are killed, sometimes by exposure or being buried alive.
7PQx TIL There was once a doctor who performed a xenotransplantation on a baby that sufferd fom heart disease by transplanting a baboon heart. The baby died. When asked why he didn’t use a heart from an evolutionary closer animal, he replied “I do not believe in evolution”
epM5J TIL that in the short story "Button, Button" (press button, get $ and someone you don't know dies) the husband dies because the wife didn't "really" know him and the author hated the Twilight Zone ending where the button was given to a stranger after being pressed
d815j TIL: In 1918, Iowa Governor William F. Harding signed a proclamation banning all languages other than English for public conversation, education, speeches, or church services. Some churches had to close and people were fined for speaking German on the phone.
k9dd TIL the animation segment in Bowling for Columbine that followed Matt Stone’s interview was made to look like it was by the South Park creators, which angered them and led to Michael Moore being parodied in Team America: World Police