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TIL that Tchaikovsky, who was gay, signed off a letter to his brother Modest, who was also gay, as "Your devoted and loving sister, Petrolina"

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P1KaZ TIL That heading directly to the curb is not the safest path to avoid an oncoming vehicle.
6Ek4Z Today I learned that a Victorian man in 1875 died after accidentally swallowing a mouse. "The mouse began to tear and bite inside the man's throat and chest, and the result was that the unfortunate fellow died after a little time in horrible agony."
7rAEX TIL an 18yo was arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
DJOr TIL that in Batman’s early comics, he used guns and killed criminals
Oyy1 TIL James Madison proposed creating the Senate to protect the very wealthy from the poor: “Landholders ought to have a share in the government […]. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body”