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TIL LGBT youth represent at least 20% of the homeless population in the US, with some estimates as high as 40%

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KOv0E TIL Hen harriers, native to Eurasia, hunt by surprising prey while flying low to the ground in open fields, often circling an area several times looking and listening for small birds and mammals.Its owl-like facial disc affords this diurnal raptor exceptional auditory acuity.Males practice polygyny.
e54E TIL that in 2012 a Manchester couple jokingly invited Queen Elizabeth to their wedding, the Queen accepted and made an appearance along with Prince Philip.
OGEeY TIL Grass didn't exist until the Cretaceous
BGkk TIL Conan O'Brien and friends dressed like construction workers and started tore up a street. Conan called city police and reported his crime. Then he called the state police and reported that college students were dressed as police and harassing construction workers. Both forces arrive to arrest each other.
D1GEY TIL a man named Curtis Flowers has been tried SIX times for the SAME murder charge, currently awaiting his SEVENTH trial on death row, and it DOESN'T fall under the Double Jeopardy clause