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TIL That Rob Halford of Judas Priest is the first openly gay Heavy Metal singer. He based his leather look that became standard Heavy Metal style on the gay BDSM subculture of the time.

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lonk7 Physicists have confirmed a pear-shaped nucleus, and it could ruin time travel forever.
xaA5 TIL People are using discarded Christmas trees to catch sand and naturally rebuild sand dunes destroyed by hurricane Sandy
loLR7 TIL that china is consuming more pork than ever before
PYDOL TIL that Galileo's middle finger from his right hand is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence. Three of his fingers and a tooth were removed during his reburial in 1737.
Oxj4 TIL: “One man actually succeeded in reinventing the wheel. John Keogh … submitted a patent application for a ‘circular transportation facilitation device’ in May 2001, shortly after a new patent system was introduced in Australia. His 'wheel’ was issued a patent.”