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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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W7NPY TIL of the Tlatelolco massacre, a student protest that led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of people being injured, after the mexican government had snipers firing at the Mexican Armed Forces to make it appear the protest had turned violent and justify the massacre
Wgbd TIL that Orson Welles, influential actor and director of the classic film “Citizen Kane,” ended his prolific career by playing Unicron, a planet-eating robot in “Transformers: The Movie”.
YYWG TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.
d88er TIL Michelle Carter, a 17-year-old girl forced her boyfriend,Conrad Henri Roy III, an American marine salvage captain to commit suicide to win sympathy and attention that came with being the “grieving girlfriend” in 2014
R7EAl TIL Humpacks protect seals from Orcas by hiding them on top of their fins