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TIL Orson Scott Card wrote in 2008 that “marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.”

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grWDy TIL that lipstick was first invented in ancient Sumerian and Indus Valley about 5,000 years ago. Later, people wore lipstick for different purposes. The ancient Egyptians wore lipstick to show social status rather than gender, while the Chinese protected their lips.
JYWNl TIL that bills making North Dakota and South Dakota into states were signed on the same day, and President William Harrison deliberately shuffled the papers together so history would be forever unable to tell which legally came into being as a state the first.
O15R TIL that Maurice Sendak based the monsters in “Where the Wild Things Are” on his Eastern European immigrant relatives, who scared him with their unkempt hair and bad teeth.
Br55W TIL when Sophie Rutschmann of the University of Strasbourg discovered a mutated gene that causes an adult fruit fly to die within two days after it is infected with certain bacteria, she named the gene "Kenny" in honor of the South Park character, who dies in almost every early episode.
KN59 TIL in the 1980s, India released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges river in an attempt to clean up corpse-pollution. The turtles were raised on dead fish so they wouldn’t develop a taste for the living, as they ate mostly everything. The $32M plan failed due to corruption and mismanagement