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TIL Ayn Rand encouraged her followers to vote against Ronald Reagan because he wasn’t pro-choice

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woDWP TIL Human sexuality is influenced by genetics
M7xn8 TIL: People with severe mental illness are no more likely to engage in violent behavior than the general population, but are more likely to be the victims of violence themselves
d8D19 TIL that there is a monument to honour the almost one million (often forgotten) Allied horses who died during the First World War. Of one million drafted horses only 62,000 returned 1918.
R54BQ TIL serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam, wrote a letter in response to the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks in which he told the shooters to "stop hurting innocent people".
VM7wZ [TIL] that before Ian McDiarmid Played the Emperor in ROTJ the original portrayal in Empire Strikes Back was an actress with a male voice dubber over.