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TIL ‘Playboy’ once featured a short story about heterosexual men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. In response to angry letters Hefner wrote, “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”

WJgN TIL the Stone Age ended between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago, but lasted roughly 3.4 million years. The Stone Age represents more that just the beginning of human existence, it’s the overwhelming bulk of human existence
ZpmvD TIL that Venezuelan serial killer and cannibal Dorangel Vargas - who confessed to killing and eating at least ten individuals. He declared that men's meat tastes better than women's and that he avoided eating fat people because of high cholesterol levels.
GYpE1 TIL that Hallmark Channel Christmas movies always have some snow, but not a lot, because they film in summer and fake snow costs too much. Each movie has a budget of about $2 million, which is what most TV episodes cost.
6EYb8 TIL When "Foolish Beat" by Debbie Gibson went #1 in 1988 she became the youngest artist (at 17) ever to have written, produced, and performed a Billboard number-one single, as entered in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records, a record she continues to hold 32 years later...
Z51v TIL that on April Fools Day in 1989, billionaire Richard Branson designed a hot air balloon to look like a UFO, and hired a dwarf in an E.T. costume to come out and scare whoever was near it when it landed.