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TIL Tara was an Ulster loyalist movement in Northern Ireland that espoused a brand of evangelical Protestantism. Preaching a hard-line and somewhat esoteric brand of loyalism...

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9w7gB TIL Seoul 1988 was the first Olympics to have condoms distributed, with a supply of 8500 with increases ever since. However there is no research evidence that athletes competing in the Olympics would be more likely to seek out casual sex
xmJb TIL that ceiling height of a particular room can influence the thinking of people in that room. High ceilings make people more creative, whereas low ceilings make people pay more attention to details.
N70N [TIL] That Robert E. Lee was against slavery.
1vbO TIL that only around 5% of Buddha’s teachings have been translated to modern languages; a global non-profit group named 84,000 aims to translate all of Buddha’s teachings to modern languages in order to combat the possible loss of this cultural heritage
QNEZE TIL that Marlin Brando popularised wearing t-shirts as an outfit from his role in A Streetcar Named Desire. Before then it was commonplace to wear a t-shirt as an undergarment.