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TIL Feminist actually help change the definition of rape to include men being victims of rape.

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1kv8 TIL According to the US soldiers who guarded him, one of the few times Saddam Hussein ever looked defeated in prison was when they brought him the wrong cereal. (Fruit Loops. He hated Fruit Loops.)
W7Bd TIL Mother Teresa actually believed that the poor was meant to be poor, the sick intended to be sick and used all donations to open up unwanted covenants. Then when sick herself, went to the best medical centers. (3 part series)
R5BrQ TIL that in the United Kingdom, prior to the 1840 introduction of postage stamps, letters were paid for by the recipient. The cost was determined by the distance from sender to recipient, and the number of sheets of paper used.
Lkded TIL that Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was the only General to storm the beaches of Normandy in the first wave. He walked the beach with his cane, waiving his pistol, and rallied the troops. He would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on Utah Beach.
r0we TIL Christopher Columbus used a lunar eclipse, predicted by European science, to persuade Jamaican natives that he was a God. This convinced them to continue feeding him and his men, at great personal loss.