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TIL the US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other.

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R5Y7l TIL that Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, only served 5 years in prison for manslaughter based on a defense of depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food which was dubbed the "Twinkie Defense"
KYaD6 TIL — Persons surnamed "Cialis" objected to Eli Lilly and Company's so naming the drug, but the company has maintained that the drug's trade name is unrelated to the surname.
0d4Qv TIL that the village of Westward Ho! is the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name
8wbZ TIL that Dashrath Manjhi from India worked day and night for 22 years to cut through a mountain to create a path from his village to a local hospital.He reduced the distance from 75 km to 1 km .
0dXKN TIL The government of Bermuda has a Feral Chicken Management Plan to reduce the number of the invasive species