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TIL Uganda once had a bisexual king who would demand sex from his male subjects. If they refused, they would be executed.

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M7ymW TIL in November 1970 an airplane carrying the Marshall University football team (plus coaches and a few other people) crashed into a mountaintop outside the Huntington WV airport, killing all 75 people on board. It is considered the worst sports-related air tragedy in U.S. history.
QJPNL Horror movies can be an effective treatment for anxiety.
78gZp Til a study which tracked students who started school from about 1960 to 1990, found students from low-income families in states that spent 20 percent more on them over the 12 years they were in school had a 23-percentage point higher graduation rate than students without that benefit.
Y70jx TIL Oreo has to call the white center "creme" instead of "cream" because the FDA does not allow manufacturers to use the word "cream" to describe a food that contains no cream at all.
m1j7Y TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. The matter reached the FBI and The Pirate Bay collaborated with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.