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TIL the first recorded gay couple in history were two Ancient Egyptian manicurists serving at the Pharaoh’s royal court in 2400 BC.

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mdEv TIL that over 350 documented cases of lynchings happened in California. But unlike their Southern, African American counterparts, the victims of this violence were largely Latino.
7LXX TIL of Brryan Jackson. He was purposely injected with HIV-tainted blood when he was 11 months old, by his own father. He developed AIDS by the age of 5 and death seemed certain. Today, he is over 20 years old and the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.
b77N TIL that people subconsciously use the words “um” and “ah” when hesitating because they are neutral vowel sounds that maintain the flow of conversation by indicating to the listener that the speaker is continuing a thought and will continue to speak.
GpnE TIL upon hearing that the Crusaders had lost Jerusalem in 1187, Pope Urban III suffered a heart attack and died
pY8rO TIL that Yahweh is not the actual name of the Abrahamic God but a representation of the consonants within, YHWH. God's full name was considered too sacred to spell out entirely and thus the real vowels within are lost to time.