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TIL It is a Federal Crime to make an unreasonable gesture in passing to a horse on Federal Land

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78P0b TIL the song "Lesbian Seagull" from Beavis & Butt-Head Do America was not written for the film as a comedy bit, but already existed as a real song written in 1979 in response to a scientific study of long-term monogamous lesbian behavior observed in seagulls on Santa Barbara Island.
epOVJ TIL that Walking is more effective than Metformin in Type 2 Diabetics heart health
pYAeQ TIL that in 1901, Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas were wed by a priest. Elisa, wearing a suit and donning short hair, presented as a man. She told the priest that she was called ‘Mario’ and concocted a fake backstory. The priest married them believing they were a heterosexual couple.
v1eLj TIL that wasabi is so expensive and difficult to grow, that almost all of it on the market is in fact dyed horseradish.
j6E5v TIL that XM4 5HQ is the UK postcode for Father Christmas, a leetspeak of "XMAS HQ"