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TIL The first native English speaker to teach English in Japan was named Ranald MacDonald

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6vrW TIL although homosexual men represent only 4% of the male population in the United States, in 2010, homosexual men accounted for 78% of new HIV infections among males and 63% of all new infections.
0wLBA TIL about the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, "They say that history is written by the victors, but the Civil War has been the rare exception.....the South’s version has held sway in our schools, our literature and, since the dawn of feature films, our movies." — Mick LaSalle
QJrlk TIL that Farming Simulator has a competitive scene.
rZGy TIL after escaping an Australian prison, 6 starving convicts cannibalized the dying men 1 by 1 til the last survivor was captured. He escaped jail again with 1 man, then killed & ate him despite having other food left, saying human meat was “delicious” & better than fish or pork
yVy1w TIL the World Record for longest name is held by a man whose name contained 746 letters and 27 words. Each of his 26 surnames started with a different letter, in alphabetical order. His last name told the story of a Wolf-Slayer whose ancestors came here on a tungsten spaceship 1.2 million years ago.