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TIL The Netherlands were the very first country to legalize same-sex marriage, and furthermore, homosexual acts were legal since 1811

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VM9gQ TIL Bhangmeter is the device used to measure yield of nuclear weapon.It is named after the hindi word for cannabis as a joke that only a person on drugs would believe the bhangmeter to work properly.
0d7Wj TIL that In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log in to any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'. At the time, it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web"
8DVL TIL there are islands in the Pacific that have been inhabited by the Mutineers of the HMS Bounty, the Tahitians they brought with them, and their descendants for over 200 years.
VBlDD TIL: Tua Tagovailoa (Starting Dolphins QB who throws left) is actually right handed
VBJvD TIL After leaving NASA in 1971, Neil Armstrong named his farm for a valley described in "The Lord of the Rings" and chose an email address with a Tolkien theme. There is a theory he based his One Small Step quote on "The Hobbit"