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TIL the Soviet Union under Lenin and Trotsky was the world’s first country that decriminalized homosexuality and abortion

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R77O9 TIL in the Soviet Union between 1946-1964 there was a thriving black market for bootleg recordings made from discarded x-rays.
Zpw4R TIL of Vesna Vulovi, a flight attendant who fell from 10,160 meters after a bomb tore through the baggage area of a plane she was working on. She not only survived, but managed to make a complete recovery.
j6P7a TIL that an irrational number is called "irRATIOnal" because it cannot be expressed as a RATIO. This is probably the stupidest TIL ever, but for decades I just thought a number was called irrational because it had a never-ending decimal that did not behave in a predictable, explicable way.
Je5Q TIL a New Zealand man memorized the French dictionary to compete in a French Scrabble tournament. He won the tournament despite not speaking any french.
6Em6X TIL the term “square meal” comes from the British navy where plates were square with raised edges to stop food spilling in rough seas.