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TIL only two of the Village People were gay the rest of the group pretended because they were marketed towards the LGBT community

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mxZax TIL Research shows that developing resilience and fighting back against anxiety can be a matter of "unlearning learned helplessness."
7rN8x TIL that NASCAR doesn't only turn left! "While NASCAR is known for primarily running counter-clockwise on oval tracks, Sonoma Raceway and Watkins Glen International are complex road courses which are raced clockwise. ... Since 1963, the series has raced on at least one road course every year."
OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.
9wkQ6 TIL that 70 to 80% of hemophiliacs being treated with blood products prior to 1985 became infected with HIV
yYOp TIL that Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk used to listen in on telephone and sex chatlines to find appalling, original stories for his writing.