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TIL that since 1979, the government of Iran has executed more than 4,000 people just because they were gay.

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1a9Zd TIL in 2008 German actor Daniel Hoevels accidentally cut his own throat on stage in a “suicide scene” when he was given a real knife by mistake.
7rj7X TIL in 2002 an Internet geolocation service began using 38,-97, located in Kansas, as the default coordinates for all IPs it was unable to find. This led to a rural farm getting harassed by incompetent law enforcement investigators, doxxers, and Internet crackpots.
R75Gw TIL between 2011 and 2014, the US Department of Defense spent $43 million for a single gas station only a few cars could even use in Afghanistan.
negKB TIL The notion that we are all 99.9% the same came from looking for differences in our DNA letter by letter. The new studies show people not only have differences within their genes, but also in the number of their genes. We are definitely not as alike as we once believed.
LLRd TIL that after a Southern Confederacy lost the Civil war, 10 to 20 thousand of them fled the country and established a colony in Brazil.