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TIL that Jamaica is considered the most homophobic place on earth. Men are even afraid to seek treatment for HIV out of fear they will be associated with homosexuals.

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oBQJ7 TIL about the Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake', a lake at an altitude of about 5000 m, known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons, the remains belonging to very different eras and to different distinct groups (Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean), whose cause of death remains a mystery though.
gM6p8 TIL the founder of the KKK, a Confederate cavalry general, later ordered the klan to disband and called for racial harmony between whites and blacks
rRMjM TIL The story of Madame Bovary was partly based off of the sensational news story that told of the life of French woman Delphine Delamare
GAYD7 TIL Bud Ruskin wrote the pilot script for "The Mod Squad" in 1960, based on his experiences working on an undercover sheriff's detective squad of young people. ABC put it on the air in 1968, when it was probably more successful than it would have been in the pre-hippy era.
x6llg TIL Gordon Ramsay opened his third 'Hell's Kitchen' restaurant in 2020 in a Lake Tahoe hotel/casino and 2 weeks before it opened people had already made more than 12,000 reservations.