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TIL that suicide is no longer considered a crime in most places.

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VM4Wm TIL exercise can "reduce the persistence of previously learned fear"
0wmwR TIL the Sacred Band of Thebes was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male couples which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC, and were responsible for the defeat of the Spartans at the decisive Battle of Leuctra (371 BC).
WkEr8 TIL Hernando Colón, the son of Christopher Columbus, started a universal library in Seville, Spain. He really did try to collect everything, and catalogued books, manuscripts, pamphlets and tavern posters, from weighty tomes to throwaway ephemera.
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eBx6 TIL that a woman adopted and murdered over 400 infants in order to make money on adoption fees