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TIL that parts of Anne Frank's diary were censored because some of the entries described her vagina.

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ADDJg In 2011, my partner and I moved to New York. Straight from Austria without knowing what to expect.
Z66a TIL the first same sex couple in History were 2 manicurists to the Pharaoh, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. They are depicted facing each other and embracing in their joint tomb with inscriptions reading “joined in life and joined in death”
vkwK TIL that the last US-company mass-producing audio cassettes, founded in 1969, had their best year in 2015, selling about 10 million tapes
7rbwL TIL upon sending his son, who worried about his ability to hold his own amid experienced and eminent statesmen and diplomats, to the negotiation that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia, a Swedish statesman famously told him:"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"
OWje TIL Japan has over 100 active volcanoes, about 10% of all the world’s active volcanoes.