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TIL when Nathan Lane told his mother he was gay, she replied “I would rather you were dead”. To which Nathan said, “I knew you’d understand.”

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0Llj TIL Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, created a game similar to No Man’s Sky: 0x10c. It included a fully working virtual computer, random encounters, an advanced economy system and multiplayer modes in a consistent universe. It was cancelled by Notch as he found “it not being very fun to play”.
W74eL TIL Whales and dolphins, who still retain vestigial hip bones, evolved from land-dwelling even-toed ungulates (like hippos, deer, and camels) around 50 million years ago.
Q909 TIL Algae produces most of the world’s oxygen
j68lj TIL that if you're over the age of 62 and in the US, you can get a free lifetime pass to all federal recreation areas managed by the National Park Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, US Forest Service, or the US Army Corps of Engineers for $80.
gM59A TIL that in 1986, when a murdered woman was found by her husband in their LA apartment, the LAPD considered the case a botched burglary. The woman’s father said that an old lover of his daughter’s husband-an LA cop, was the murderer. He was proven right by a DNA match over 20 years later.