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TIL, a woman in Nebraska tried to sue all gay people. Her appeal had no legal references, but quoted Webster’s Dictionary and the Bible.

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P1Q5Z TIL that 'The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening was a fan of 'Beavis and Butt-head' because "it took the heat off of Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization".
QJdgd TIL that Pall Mall cigarettes are named after a well-known street in London, England.
LQXGv TIL that the inspiration for Billy Elliot was an opera singer, Thomas Allen, not a dancer
grOEy TIL The Hale telescope features a 200 inch (5.08m) diameter mirror. The mirror took 10 months anneal and was delivered to Caltech in 1936. The telescope was completed in 1948 as it took years of grinding and polishing to make the mirror accurate to 2/1,000,000ths of an inch of a perfect paraboloid.
9x4r TIL from a declassified US DOD document titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ that the DOD wanted to blow up a US Navy ship, down a civilian airliner, crash John Glenn’s spaceship, fake an attack on Guantanamo and stage communist terror campaigns to provide justification for a US military invasion of Cuba.