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TIL that Weenie, the dog from 2001 educational kids programming show Oswald, was actually female

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6Ek58 TIL that a UK documentary once showed video footage of an IRA group using Lybian weapons including a truck mounted Anti Aircraft gun, shooting down a British helicopter. The footage turned out to be from Arma2, a video game. The IRA really did blow up a helicopter in 1994, but with a mortar.
y49e TIL that Coke Zero is specifically marketed toward men, who were shown to associate Diet Coke with femininity.
l7EgG TIL that 60,000+ rent-stabilized apartments in NYC are vacant as a means of creating artificial scarcity (almost twice the amount as in 2019)
15RW TIL that some scholars believe early Christianity was completely based on the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms and that any mention of Jesus or the Eucharist was actually this mushroom
OlbY TIL Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist, Bart Sibrel, in the face for doubting he was on the Moon