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TIL that between 15% and 58% of the Catholic clergy in the US is estimated to be gay (a number indisputably above the national average), and when HIV was still confined mostly to the gay community, AIDS-related deaths among priests was more than 6 times higher than among the general population.

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LaVr TIL that catapults were used in WWI to throw grenades into enemy trenches.
p8gxQ TIL about "Operation Moolah", which offered large cash rewards to North Korean pilots who defected with an intact MiG-15 jet fighter. However, the only defector who ever met the conditions, No Kum-sok, was unaware of the offer. He was still paid $100,000 ($967,289 in today's money).
8dP TIL a school in Mississippi put together a fake prom only to invite the gay and disabled students, while the rest of the school went to prom at a secret location. (#6)
X0L88 TIL that in 1976, US Coast Guard divers suffered second-degree burns after handling sediment samples from a bayou in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
Z8BQ TIL that the guy who took the famous photo of the Wright Brothers’ first flight had never seen a camera before that day.