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TIL Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were US citizens who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union in 1953.

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5VrPk TIL many Japanese gods are originally Hindu gods. in Japanese mythology, there are "Seven Gods of Fortune" out of which four originated as Hindu deities.
j64Ev TIL the city of Melbourne, Australia has more skyscrapers (150m+) than the entirety of Texas or California
7Qlx TIL a trans woman wasn’t allowed to change her gender marker to female at the DMV, so she went outside and took off her shirt. She was arrested, despite her license saying “Male”
NXBVb TIL, that cougar's mating call sounds like murder of woman
GAom1 TIL: A study in 2009 randomly selecting people with beards, mustaches, and clean-shaven found that mustached individuals made 8.2% more money than the bearded and 4.3% more than cleanshaven. However, they spent 11% more money. The study was funded by the American Mustache Institute.