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TIL Seattle’s first openly-gay bar, Shelly’s Leg, was founded using settlement money after Shelly, a dancer, lost her leg in a glitter cannon accident at a Bastille Day parade.

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l7GX7 TIL female bats of some species are able to store sperm inside their reproductive tracts for several months. In this way, they can mate in the autumn but conceive in the spring, and thus avoid raising young in the middle of winter. Some animals can store sperm for years.
xVR6b TIL that Bretagne, the last living search and rescue dog who assisted after the 9/11 attacks, was saluted by firefighters as she was being taken into the vet's office to be euthanized due to kidney failure.
4k6LJ TIL: Per vehicle miles traveled in 2020, motorcyclist fatalities occurred nearly 28 times more frequently than passenger car occupant fatalities in traffic crashes.
n9OY TIL the welfare state was originally a right-wing invention by arch-conservative Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck hated socialism, but he wasn’t an ideologue. He figured out that if you don’t provide a minimum safety net to workers, they will be persuaded by the socialists.
KYO0J TIL when J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife and muse Edith had just met each other they were spending time by throwing sugarlumps into the hats of passers-by from the balcony of a teashop