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TIL that Fidel Castro established concentration camps for gay people because he considered homosexuality as inherently counterrevolutionary and as bourgeois decadence

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xJwD TIL police departments in Canada give out “positive tickets” when they see people doing something positive.
W7Qp9 TIL that many iconic artefacts previously discovered at Titanic's wreck site, such as the ship's crow's nest, mast, promenade deck and Captain Smith's bathtub, have already disintegrated or disappeared entirely; documentary film-making and dive tourism have been blamed as expediting the decay.
78Yxr TIL what Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters) has been up to- he built a Wildfire-fighting Tank with Palmer Luckey (Oculus founder) and Jim Newton (Techshop founder).
7rPYZ TIL there is a Banyon tree that is at least 250 years old, and takes up 3.5 acres of land.
OGLVe TIL White Star Line billed the families for uniforms of staff who died on the Titanic