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TIL James Buchanan was likely the first gay POTUS.

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mxDdR TIL Joy Milne (The Lady Who Can Smell Parkinson’s) has a story of how she discovered her ability which differs from the ‘dumb luck’/‘off-chance’ version first reported years ago
J1NDQ TIL Momma bears are so protective of their young they’ll actively seek out human occupied areas because they know male bears, who would want to kill their cubs to increase the chances they mate with them, will avoid human contact.
oRYWW TIL about the Axis of evil in Cosmology. It’s the correlation between the plane of the Solar System and aspects of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and gives the plane of the Solar System and hence the location of Earth a greater significance than is expected by chance.
xVPwg TIL about "ICD-10: V97.33XD," which is a medical billing code for surviving being sucked into a jet engine... twice
kOkeW TIL that the Roman Emperor Commodus had a bath attendant thrown into an oven after he found his bathwater was lukewarm. Due to repeated attempts on his life, he often had Roman citizens killed for making him angry.