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BgvBD TIL I learned the CIA directly influences the production of movies and Hollywood since 1946
Ob84 TIL David Bowie considered himself a “closet heterosexual,” having declared himself gay in 1972 then bisexual in 1976, but ultimately admitted that those declarations were a mistake.
GY8NE TIL in 1988, musician Philly Lutaaya became the first prominent Ugandan to openly declare he was HIV positive. Many received his declaration with skepticism, the press claiming it was just a publicity stunt to promote sales of his records. He is now considered a national hero for his AIDS activism.
7r7RM TIL that Leopold Amery, Winston Churchill's own Secretary of State for India, wrote in his private diaries, "on the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane" and that he didn't "see much difference between [Churchill's] outlook and Hitler's."
BgMDr TIL of the Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320), the Scottish Declaration of Independence, sent to the Pope in support of Robert the Bruce