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TIL In the 1920’s the state government of Indiana was literally run by the Klu Klux Klan

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nxXd TIL the reason that some people get embarrassed watching other people do cringeworthy things and others don’t has to do with how empathetic the person is.
GYKPG TIL about Frisland, a "phantom/imaginary" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.
gMnGL TIL the divorce rate of Navy Seals is 90%, twice as high as the next highest profession.
OWxX TIL the Vatican had music which was forbidden to be copied and was only played twice per year. The piece was kept secret for almost 150 years until a 14 year old Mozart listened to it and transcribed it from memory.
61Y8 TIL In the late 70’s, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness in Sweden, Swedes called in sick for work with a case of “feeling a bit homosexual”