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TIL Matthew Shepard had a sexual history with one of his killers.

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GBQ4 TIL the US Government considered nuking the Moon just to intimidate the Soviets
Knwa TIL that the first woman to serve in the US senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton in 1922. She was 87 and served for only one day. She championed prison reform, women’s rights, and education. She was the last member of Congress to have owned slaves, was a white supremacist and openly supported lynching.
ZpdRa TIL mūmiyā, a type of resin/bitumen used to treat diseases in traditional Islamic medicine, was transliterated as “mumia” in Western Europe during medieval times, which misled Europeans to think it was related to mummies and made them start consuming/trafficking human mummies from Egypt into Europe
grlEA TIL: The first Western film to be broadcast in North Korea was "Bend It Like Beckham," which state-run TV played on 26th December 2002.
b6n4p TIL : a man from colombia was diagnosed with tapeworm cancer