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TIL the term ’incel’ was coined by a woman. She intended it as a community for lonely people, and is shocked by its misogynistic turn.

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5Y08n TIL American rapper Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album ‘DAMN’. This marks the first time the Pulitzer Prize in Music went to someone outside the classical or jazz community.
bYZN TIL the Bios Urn turns the ashes from a person’s cremation into a tree by using them as a nutrient source for a seed
yLKv TIL: A Kansas man replied to a Craigslist ad by a lesbian couple asking for a sperm donor to conceive a child. Five years later, a judge ruled that the sperm donor must pay child support even though he signed documents waiving his parental rights.
kNX1 TIL in 2013, Jennifer Friede, a Denver marijuana activist who had long championed marijuana as being safer than alcohol, died after getting fatally hit by a drunk driver.
VBXbD TIL that during the Mexican-American War, nearly 90 percent of US Army deaths were due to infectious diseases, the highest of any US conflict