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TIL First Lady Rose Cleveland was a Lesbian who carried on erotic correspondence with a widow named Evangeline Simpson. Rose was Grover Cleveland’s youngest sister and served as his first lady for over a year, until he married in 1886.

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A99n TIL Dogs also wag their tails to spread their natural scent from their anal glands. Each dog has a scent that’s unique to him or her. Often, when we see a dog holding his tail between his legs, he’s frightened and doesn’t want to release his scent. This is his way of flying under the radar.
mwao TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money.
4XAXb TIL during the Jim Crow era in the U.S., the turban was used by people of color for "confounding the color lines"—in other words, if you could pass yourself off as something other than black, you might circumvent some amount of discrimination.
XEWJ6 TIL A turkey is called a Hindi in Turkey because of everyone being confused as to where this bird came from in the days of the New World
JXoQ TIL that during a siege, the viking legend Harald Hardrada fell sick, faked his death, and had his men convince the enemy to bury him inside the castle. As they entered, they dropped the casket, took up arms and conquered the castle