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TIL of Caroline Crossey, who was the first trans woman to appear in a James Bond a film (in 1981) and the first trans woman to pose for Playboy (in 1991)

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Xm7R TIL that when a bee mates with a queen its ejaculation is so powerful that it is audible by the human ear.
N7GA6 TIL the Saudi blockade of Yemen has caused 70% of Yemen's population to starve. Over 50k children died of starvation in 2017 alone.
4XrNw TIL The movie “Dogma” is not available digitally, in part, because the Catholic League threatened a boycott of Disney.
R5gw TIL The US government, in 1962, brainstormed ways to get the American Population to go to war with Cuba. One idea was to fake the Hijacking of Airliners.
KOPd9 TIL of Adolfo Kaminsky, a 18 year-old French forger who faked IDs for Jews during WWII. He once worked for 3 days straight to make papers for 300 children until he passed out. He kept his work a secret - his own daughter only learned the details while writing a book about him.