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TIL Ireland Googles the term “gay porn” more than any other English-speaking country, despite having a population of only 4.5 million

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WkygX TIL about Peter Lang a 76 year old man who single-handedly fought a fire for 10 hours to save his safari animals.
75DM TIL of the Rotherham child sex ring scandal wherein at least 1,400 children, mostly white girls aged 11–15, had been sexually abused between 1997-2013 by predominantly Muslim men. A scandal known to the local government, but never acted upon for fear of allegations of racism
KYmj6 TIL the town of Coachella was originally going to be called Conchilla, meaning "little shells" in Spanish due to all the seashells found in the area. During the process the printers misread the documents and they were filed with Conchilla spelled 'Coachella' and they just decided to accept it.
j6BMM TIL that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn't wear different colored masks, only red!
PNZL TIL many Rabbis and historians now believe Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred.