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TIL Wrocław Poland has Hundreds of Little Brass Gnomes Throughout the City

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8QJ8 TIL that between 15% and 58% of the Catholic clergy in the US is estimated to be gay (a number indisputably above the national average), and when HIV was still confined mostly to the gay community, AIDS-related deaths among priests was more than 6 times higher than among the general population.
WkKZ4 TIL Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett) was the second actor to be cast as the Tin Woodsman in the Wizard of Oz, but had to drop out of the cast because the aluminum powder in his makeup nearly caused his death.
Q9Gd TIL in 2012, former Marine and game developer Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death in Iran for a video game called Kuma/War. His execution was overturned, but he remains in prison today.
OovAR TIL That Coca-Cola Named The World’s Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit
9Yprr TIL President Nixon interfered with Vietnamese peace talks in order to get elected.