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TIL There's an International Non-Binary People's Day, and it's 14 July - precisely between International Women's and International Men's Days

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neOP9 TIL that, in 2014, scientists found a giant 30,000 year old virus in Siberian permafrost. The virus, Pithovirus sibericum, was still infectious and began killing amoebas. This raised concerns that melting or drilling arctic ice could unearth previously undiscovered pathogenic viruses.
Dkor TIL Metropolitan Police lost trademark battle with BBC over Police Box
4kgbJ TIL of physio-kundalini syndrome, a scientific measure of spiritual enlightenment in Hinduism
XP5X TIL Frank Zappa and his friends were confronted at home by a fan brandishing a gun. Frank took him to the pond outside and invented a ceremony where everyone had to throw something in it; the fan threw in his gun
wodP TIL, That the DeLorean in Back To The Future, was almost going to be fridge instead.