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TIL that conversion therapy is still legal in Europe, but there is a petetion active to finally combat this ancient practise!

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Pv4L TIL the Finnish word kalsarikännit means to get drunk at home, alone in your underwear
6EWK8 TIL the grandson of the commandant of Auschwitz, who has denounced the Nazis, wears a Star of David at all times and was informally adopted as the "grandson" of a woman who survived Auschwitz and Mengele's experiments
oBjeE TIL: After the $4 "Stella" coin was rejected by Congress the already minted coins were sold to Congressmen at cost. This later became a source of scandal when a number of them ended up as jewelry pieces adorning the necks of madams operating some of Washington's most infamous brothels.
awX0 TIL when Patrick Stewart went bald at 19, “I believed that no woman would ever be interested in me again. I prepared myself for the reality that a large part of my life was over.”
kybe TIL that one of the earliest records we have of dreadlocks are from a civilisation in Crete