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Today I learned that the duchess of York was banned from the royal house for letting a man suck her toes

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ngxb TIL that “fundamentalist preachers” asked Fred Rogers to denounce homosexuality. In response, Mr. Rogers would pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers also belonged to a “More Light” congregation of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT citizens.
v1rGB TIL when Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star, he ended the lives of 1.7 million Imperial personnel, and 250,000 civilians (mostly contractors, prisoners and catering staff.)
yOA8 TIL A 12 year old boy won the right to wear a t-shirt saying “Homosexuality is a sin, Islam is a lie, Abortion is murder. Some issues are just black and white” to his school. The school then told him not to wear the t-shirt, leading to his parents suing the school. The parents won.
oRnMK TIL Proximity fuses were invented jointly by UK & US in WW II. A secret guarded to a similar level as the atom bomb project, and for years not fired on Germans for fear of them figuring it out. It allowed UK anti-V1 artillery to go from 17% to 74% effective. Julius Rosenberg was able to steal one.
VPGG TIL that Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh was based on the author’s son by the same name who later grew to despise his father for having “climbed on [his] infant shoulders and filched [him] of [his] good name,” through the works.