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TIL Hunter S. Thompson started QAnon’s Adrenochrome Quackery

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JWym TIL In 1955 Hugh Hefner released a short story about straight men being persecuted in a gay world. After receiving numerous hatemail, he released a statement saying “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
LkrXm TIL that people who are in favor of "e daí?" are putting the lives of innocent people
OowP7 TIL the Aztecs of Mexico used a “rabbit scale” to describe degrees of intoxication. It ranged from very mild intoxication (a few rabbits) to heavy drunkenness (400 rabbits).
j6gOp TIL Magdalene laundries were catholic institutions made to rehabilitate promiscuous women through forced labour. They housed an estimated 30,000 women who were deemed to have committed moral crimes.
R5vvw TIL that Marie Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, also received a Nobel prize in chemistry. And she also shared it with her husband.