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TIL Richard Littler has been writing a blog of the history of Scarfolk, a fictional, supernatural-tinged town perpetually stuck in the 1970s. Littler presents the town's story through materials from the council's "archive": posters, pamphlets and packaging that reveal aspects of everyday life.

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R7ZWa TIL that 6 East African countries are working for become a single federation before 2023
0w7b5 TIL Wikipeida have tried to adopt a mascot. Suggestions have been a monkey behind a typewriter, an amoeba, Cliff Clavin (from Cheers), The Thinker, an owl, slime mold, termites. The most common mascot is the anime influenced Wikipie-Tan, a Moe personification of the site. She's still unofficial.
Wk86L TIL that in 2010, an 18-year-old Indonesian man was found having sex with a cow, who he claimed flirted with him. In order to cleanse the village of the act of bestiality, the man was forced to ritually marry the cow. The cow was then drowned in the ocean, and the man was also symbolically drowned
jNxxa TIL Dr. John Fryer of Philadelphia appeared at the 1972 APA convention wearing a rubber mask to deliver a speech about the hardships of being a psychiatrist and gay. His speech was vital to getting homosexuality off the list of mental disorders.
oR9ME TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became full citizens of the nation - before many Jewish communities in Europe...