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TIL Amateur Canadian Scientists discovered a new type of Aurora in 2018 and named it Steve

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or6W TIL that in 1996 a woman solicited a man to torture and kill her in the first case of Internet mediated consensual homicide
opJY TIL a high school kid once wrote 150 famous novelists to ask if they intentionally put symbolism in their work. 75 authors responded, including Bradbury, Asimov, Kerouac, Ayn Rand, and Updike.
gM8R8 TIL the people of North Sentinel Island, often described as uncontacted, were visited extensively in the 1990s. They hunt wild pig, their songs contain two notes, and their only form of art is body painting. Researchers compare them to humans 15,000 years ago.
8QJ8 TIL that between 15% and 58% of the Catholic clergy in the US is estimated to be gay (a number indisputably above the national average), and when HIV was still confined mostly to the gay community, AIDS-related deaths among priests was more than 6 times higher than among the general population.
OoGmL TIL that the scientific name for llamas is lama glama