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TIL the founder of the USA’s earliest lesbian bar was deported for obscenity and was eventually murdered at Auschwitz.

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mx8wR TIL the flag of Hawaii has the Union Jack in it, despite never being part of the British Empire. It was put there by King Kamehameha as a symbol of friendship after being presented the British flag by Captain George Vancouver
eQbg TIL: Many white tigers in zoos are white because of forced repetitive inbreeding and almost always born with genetic defects.
Ady7 TIL In the Judge Dredd universe, corpses are taken to “Resyk Centers” where they are recycled for food, manufacturing and organ donation. Funeral services are frequently held at Resyk so the bereaved can say goodbye to their loved ones, and purchase reasonably priced souvenirs at the gift shop.
ZppyR TIL In paleontology, an "Elvis taxon" is a group of organisms that was thought to have re-emerged from extinction, but in reality has actually merely developed a similar evolution, "in recognition of the many Elvis impersonators who have appeared since the death of The King."
dD8BB TIL about ASCII, a character encoding standard for electronic communication. In 1968, president Lyndon B. Johnson mandated that all computers purchased by the United States Federal Government support ASCII. It remained the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until 2007.