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TIL it's not illegal to have sex with a dead person in Massachusetts

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690EX TIL thanks to a crossover comic series, Dr. Who is canon to the Star Trek Universe.
D1EAD TIL a 2003 study suggests that 1 in 200 men are direct descendants of Genghis Khan. Almost 8% of men living in the former Mongolian empire carry nearly identical Y chromosomes.
nenAG TIL undercover officers from two different precincts tried to arrest each other in a drug sting. Both precincts had undercover officers as drug dealers/buyers and didn't know about each other. When they tried to deal each other drugs, guns were drawn and a fight started as both claimed to be police.
jbnM TIL that Key West once declared itself a micro-nation named the Conch Republic, declared war against the United States, surrendered after one minute, and then requested $1 billion in foreign aid from the U.S. federal government.
7rMEZ TIL "Sin Eaters" were people who consumed food off the dead in order to take on the sins of a deceased person.