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TIL kissing on the lips is not universal or innate human behavior. The tradition started in India and spread after Alexander the Great conquered Punjab in 326 B.C. Kissing was unheard of in the Western world before this!

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QJ6ad TIL in 1933, in a publicity stunt for a Mae West movie named "It ain't no Sin", a Hollywood Press Agent bought 50 parrots and had taught them to squawk "It ain't no sin!" Then the movie changed titles and the parrots were subsequently released in South America, still repeating "it ain't no sin".
e0XBL TIL about the “Kids for cash” scandal where two judges were paid by for profit prisons to send kids to jail.
0wB0R TIL that Alaska has the highest rate of serial killings at just over 7 per 100,000 people, while California has the highest number of serial killings overall, totaling 1,628 people.
XEvkX TIL that Simeon II, the last Tsar of Bulgaria, who reigned in the 1940s, is still alive and working. He served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005.
N7PJN TIL that during WWII, the US Navy discharged gay sailors at Treasure Island in San Francisco. This helped make SF both a refuge and a major travel destination for gay men.