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TIL that Coca-Cola played a major role in getting King & Spalding, a powerful Atlanta law firm, to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act by threatening to change firms.

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wRJW TIL that Millennials Are Having Way Less Sex Than Their Parents and are twice as likely as the previous generation to be virgins
8aPXa TIL that in 1984 a BBC radio DJ stopped a song mid-way, once he realised that the lyrics were pro gay. The rest of the BBC followed suit. Two weeks later, "Relax" by Frankie goes to Hollywood reached No.1.
mxbdR TIL that 30% of those with ADHD do not finish high school (10% for non-AHDH), 40% get pregnant as teens (4%), 60% are accident prone (10%), 50% get into a serious car crash (17%), and 54% get fired from a least one job (31%) respectively.
GY5ng TIL that Queen still performed in apartheid South Africa when the majority of bands refused to, and was by far the largest band to do so. They were subsequently placed on the United Nations' artist blacklist.
MeDRA TIL that the Sega Master System and Genesis are still produced under licence and being sold in Brazil, where they routinely outsell modern game consoles. This is due to high tariffs making imported consoles very expensive. Almost half of all Sega Master Systems ever sold were sold in Brazil.