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TIL That, in an American experiment, when showed gay porn, 80% of the homophobes had an erection compared to 34% of the non-homophobic subjects

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nwlo TIL in 2014 a cat was badly burned in a house fire that left him blind. He needed over 24 operations and a 1.5 year stay in an animal hospital. Despite his injuries, he offered comfort to every new animal to enter the clinic: fawn, dog, hamster or bird, by snuggling beside them on arrival.
MvN7 TIL the Soviet Union still has an active internet domain suffix in operation, .su. It has since become a haven for cybercriminals and dark net users, as well as for the Donetsk People’s Republic
Ae4o TIL given a choice between alcohol-soaked food and normal food, male fruit flies that have recently been sexually-rejected by females will consume four times more alcohol-soaked food than the males that mated successfully.
5YmmB TIL After Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster was pressured out of her post, President Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail 30 miles away, in the end the atmosphere became so hostile that Mrs. Cox left for her own safety.
j6xRN TIL that Ireland is the only country in the world where you can be served fried chicken prepared with Colonel Sander's original KFC recipe