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TIL The Miss Universe Pageant Has Allowed Transgender Women to Compete Since 2013

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16pvV TIL that the phrase “time immemorial” (as used in English common law) refers to any time prior to July 6, 1189
JNr8 TIL Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains after Hurricane Katrina as he felt it would be insensitive to people who have lost their possessions.
0wOnA TIL The infamous scene, in Mel Gibson's film "the Patriot" depicting the herding noncombatant men, women and children into a church, and setting it on fire is based on the SS massacre of French villagers in Oradour-Sur-Glane in 1944. Nothing like this ever happened in the American Revolution.
x61e5 TIL Most of North America's earthworms are not native, the native earthworms were killed of by an ice sheet around 10000 years ago. Most earthworms in North America today were descended from those introduced by settlers in the 18th century.
d8lmj TIL 30/31 of the first popes were murdered & while most of them were martyred, not all causes of their deaths are known.