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TIL San Antonio, Texas has the highest percentage of gay and lesbian parents in the US

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x6565 TIL of the Civil Cooperation Bureau, a government death squad in Apartheid South Africa. Accused of murders, they also bombed a kindergarten, harassed a dissident by pointing a RPG7 at him while forcing him to drink moonshine, and tried to bewitch Desmond Tutu by hanging a baboon fetus in his home.
epNJ5 TIL that the Finnish children’s book Hippu (1967) became so popular in Japan that its author, Oili Tanninen, wrote four sequels—exclusively in Japanese—for publisher Kodansha. Strangely, these books were never translated into Finnish until 2021.
b9mm0 Today I learned, after airspace was closed after the attacks of 9/11, 38 planes were diverted to a large dormant airport in Newfoundland Canada and the residents of Gander in Newfoundland welcomed in nearly 7,000 people into their homes and schools to stay while they where stranded for 6 days.
m0jx TIL the “Nuts” in Honey Nut Cheerios is “natural almond flavour” derived from benzaldehyde which in turn is generally derived from peach and apricot pits.
bJRj TIL holding a warm drink makes you perceive others you interact with to be “warmer”; i.e. friendlier and more giving.