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TIL OJ Simpson’s father was a well-known drag queen in the SF area and died of AIDS in 1986.

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k87E TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung
Y7jl7 TIL by the year 2100, the human race will have lost about half of the languages in use today. Every fourteen days a language dies. For native speakers of Navajo, Southwestern Ojibwa, Ohlone or Aragonese, losing their language means losing cultural heritage and history.
5M7D TIL Space Ghost’s real first name is Thaddeus
nWxvY TIL That pounds are officially weighed in kilograms
LvEd TIL that according to the bible, David was offered the king’s daughter if he came back with 100 foreskins of slain enemies. He came back with 200.