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TIL in the 19th century the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women.

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OG4DY TIL: Panther is a general word, it does not refer to a species of wild cat. Panther is most commonly used to describe three different types of cat in the wild: leopards and jaguars in their black form, and pumas in Florida and the eastern US
J91l TIL that people in a like-minded group tend to have more extreme and controversial views than they would if they were thinking on their own, a phenomenon called Group Polarization.
WkvvL According to Texas A&M’s Urban Mobility Report 2019, the average auto commuter spends an extra 54 hours in his or her car every year on top of the time it should actually take to get to the office. If you live in a city like Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York, that figure doubles. In Los Angeles, for example, commuters spend 119 hours each year delayed in their cars—that’s almost three full weeks spent idling.
rRgDo TIL The 1964 on-track death of a NASCAR alum named Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, of a crash resulting in fire explosion burns, directly led to Simpson creating the fire protection suit, saving the lives of many future drivers.
JYZ54 TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to attend his son John's graduation from West Point, but was unable to do so because he was "a bit too busy with work." On graduation day - June 6, 1944 - the elder Eisenhower was overseeing the Allied invasion of Normandy.