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TIL that in WW2 the US Army issued manuals on how to perform in drag.

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8eP78 TIL that the Hundred Acre Wood in the original Winnie-the-Pooh books isn't the name of the forest where Pooh and all his friends live. Rather, it is a specific place inside The Forest, centered on Owl's house
6waZ TIL falcons sometimes become sexually imprinted on humans. In order to bred them, the breeder lets the male bird copulate with his head while wearing a special hat with pockets to catch the semen.
PyPw TIL the ‘church’ of Scientology has its own prison
kDb4 TIL that women didn’t have the right to vote in one region of Switzerland until 1991. Two women had to file a lawsuit in Swiss Federal Court to gain voting rights in Appenzell Innerrhoden.
PYrNO TIL about "The Lost Chord," a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his dying brother. It was recorded onto Edison's phonograph in 1888, one of the first recordings of music ever made. The piece has endured as one of Sullivan's best-known songs as is still performed today.