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TIL In Russia, it is illegal to tell kids that gay people exist

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awrrN TIL that the man responsible for inventing leaded gasoline, Thomas Midgley Jr, was also accredited for the introduction of the ozone depleting refrigerant Freon. Later in life, Midgley contracted Polio and subsequently died when he was strangled by the very device he designed to get him out of bed.
W018 TIL the US plan to convince North Korean pilots to defect for a cash reward was called “Operation Moolah”
jVoE TIL the feminine companion word to phallic is yonic, meaning imagery evoking or in the shape of the vulva or vagina.
W7AW9 TIL the Secret Six was a real-life crime fighting organization formed by wealthy businessmen in Chicago in 1930 in response to rampant crime and the corrupt, ineffective police of the day. They were credited with solving a number of high-profile crimes including kidnappings.
jNbpv TILL The first cat video ever ("Boxing Cats ") were made from Thomas Edison in 1894, so is already 126 years old.