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TIL It was expected and socially acceptable for a freeborn Roman man to want sex with both female and male partners, as long as he took the penetrative role

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OaG4 TIL Indian Vulture suffered a 99% population decrease in Indo-Pak between 2000-2007 due to poisoning caused by the veterinary drug diclofenac. (Reduces joint pain in cattle and keeps them working for longer in old age). The drug enters vultures from the flesh of dead cattle.
pYdO4 TIL that in 1965, Jingle Bells was one of the first songs to broadcast from space. Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra had smuggled a harmonica and sleigh bells to play the song as a Christmas Prank.
VMaYm TIL that Wayne Newton, a famous Las Vegas singer and entertainer who's nicknamed "Mr. las Vegas", voiced a radio host in Fallout: New Vegas, a game set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, named Mr. New Vegas
4kX7w TIL after the TV show Teletubbies ended, the owner of the land used had to dig out the hill and flood the field it was filmed in, due to the amount of people trespassing to see Teletubbieland.
epx1n TiL that the stock trading shenanigsns in the 1983 film TRADING PLACES actually helped change financial trading laws in 2010 with what became known as 'The Eddie Murphy Rule'.