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TIL about Selli Engler, a prominent member of the Lesbian Movement in Interwar Germany, until 1931 when she joined the Nazi party.

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jNQrn TIL birds poop white because they don't urinate. The uric acid turns poop white and makes it hard to get off windshields because it doesn't dissolve easily with water.
9w4bD TIL about Yule logs, which are logs burns on a hearth to celebrate Yule
y7lJ TIL: that in 2008 PEPSI paid a branding company several hundred million dollars to reimagine their logo. The design document that company drafted later leaked onto the internet.
kJvme TIL Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont committed suicide because of the sight of airplanes flying over his city to bomb a nearby airport
Z0Ro TIL there are more slaves today than at any other point in human history. Nearly half of which are in India.