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TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work,claiming they felt gay.

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lj8A TIL there exists a waterfall in Antarctica that has a water source completely devoid of oxygen containing a high amount of Iron & Sodium. When the water is finally exposed to air as it flows out of the glacier, it rusts coloring the water blood red making it look like the glacier is bleeding!
eZnE TIL oral sex was illegal in Canada… Until it was legalized in 1969.
ep055 TIL that Mexican revolutionary leader and general Pancho Villa played himself in multiple Hollywood movies during the 1910s. He also married numerous women without ending prior marriages.
m1JAx TIL the International Court of Justice could not conclusively decide whether a country may use nuclear weapons in self-defense if its survival is at stake.
vEvK TIL that Japanese honey bees can ‘bake’ and thus kill hive invading wasps, by having multiple bees form a ball around the invader and vibrating their wings to create heat.