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TIL that lesbians experience higher rates of domestic assault than straight women, with over 67% of assaulted lesbians reporting exclusively female perpetrators

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GAemg TIL that the last words of Apache leader and prisoner of war Geronimo were: "I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."
R7VZ7 TIL that while filming Armageddon, Ben Affleck asked director Michael Bay, why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and was told to shut the fuck up.
6NXJ TIL that a species of nematode was discovered living at depths of up to 2.2 miles deep, suggesting that an undiscovered biosphere may exist underground.
VMJDp TIL of Republican Congress member Thaddeus Steven who wanted to exile former slave owners and redistribute their land among slaves and farmers
964p TIL Adolf Hitler’s nephew escaped from Germany, moved to the United States, and enlisted in the US Navy fighting the axis powers during WWII.