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TIL that Hinduism, unlike most Western faiths, historically treats homosexuality as a natural behavior and there are atleast 19 LGBT gods in the Hindu mythology.

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N7r4E TIL that the scientists who first discovered the platypus thought it was fake. Although indigenous Aboriginal people already knew of the creature, European scientists assumed an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous mammal had to be an elaborate hoax.
BrZjW TIL in 1989, then Prime Minister of Japan Sōsuke Uno resigned after a geisha revealed she had an extramarital affair with him. The key of the scandal wasn't morality, but that he had failed to properly provide and support his mistress with an appropriate amount, and was branded as a stingy man.
eYV4 TIL in the middle ages, people believed witches stole penises and kept them in birds nests or boxes and fed them grain
jNW5Q TIL Vyacheslav Molotov, the namesake of the Molotov cocktail, was the last surviving major participant of the Russian Revolutions of 1917. He died in 1986 at the age of 96.
O1Le TIL France is the only country in the world to successfully send a cat to space and bring it back alive.