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TIL I learned that the first law suit to legalize homosexual marriages in the United States was brought by a Christian Church.

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rXDe TIL that color-blindness in humans happens when a person has two visual processing cones instead of the usual three. There is a flipside, that there are people who have a condition known as Tetrachromacy, where someone has four cones, potentially allowing them to see more of the visible spectrum.
Z8OxY TIL that in addition to Kamikaze pilots, the Japanese in WW2 used manned torpedoes as a suicide weapon. The pilot would sit inside and manually direct the torpedo towards the target to maximize the amount of hits scored from torpedoes fired.
p8KwZ TIL The Umbrella Academy comic was written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance
R0Z7 TIL that the United States is one of only three countries (along with Somalia and South Sudan) that have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
RyKl TIL that the traditional way to pronounce Julius Caesar, is (yewl-yoos kay-i-sarr), showing where the imperial titles of Russian ‘Czar/Tsar’ or 'Kaiser’, in German, had their origins in Classical Latin and more than 2000 years as a legacy to Caesar’s family name.