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TIL about Lucy Salani, who was the only transgender person to have survived imprisonment and torture in the Nazi concentration camps.

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wOyo TIL Gandhi never said, “First, they ignore you. Then, they ridicule you. And then, they attack you and want to burn you. And then, they build monuments to you.” It was a union leader. Nicholas Klein said it in a 1914 address to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in Baltimore.
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99QD TIL Suicide rates and the amount media reports on suicide have a positive association; however, if media reports on positive coping with suicidal thoughts, it has protective effects
9Y8Lr TIL that Judaism emphasizes that sex is a deeply holy act to be performed regularly, and insists that it be pleasurable for both members of a married couple.