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TIL in the 1950s and 60s Canada spent ‘thousands and thousands’ making a ‘gaydar’ to detect homosexual government employees

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R7Xvj TIL about Pluto Lamps that were public street gas lamps in the 1890's that were coin operated serving hot water and cups of cocoa, tea, beef broth and coffee with milk and sugar options.
R7m81 TIL that former NBA player Randy Foye has a medical condition called "situs inversus", where all his organs are mirrored from their normal positions, but suffered from no complications for his career.
eN8k TIL Splenda’s sweet taste was discovered when a scientist who was told “test this chemical” misheard it as “taste this chemical”.
5YoP9 TIL, "On an autumn night in 1978, 4 fast-food workers vanished from their shift. 41 years later, police still don't know who killed them."
9Me7 TIL Italian police told Amanda Knox she was HIV positive, had her make a list of everyone she’d slept with, leaked it to the press, then said the test was a “mistake.”