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TIL Same-Sex Behavior is common among 1,500 animal species (everything from mammals to crabs and worms). It has consistently been underreported and rarely published even though it is widespread and natural in the animal kingdom.

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0m4L TIL when three men with machetes came into an African orphanage at night, a man named Omari took a hammer to fight all three at once. He survived after getting hit in the face with a machete, and saved all of the children. His story, first shared on Reddit, helped raise $83,000 for the orphanage.
9e6B TIL when Billie Holiday died, she had 70 cents in her bank account and $750 taped to her leg.
nW8pB TIL Chinese company Tencent shut down Korean video game PUBG and replaced it with “Game for Peace” in which defeated players wave goodbye and disappear instead of lying down and dying
P1J7g TIL - the 3 Hanson brothers in the movie Slapstick were based on the real Carlson brothers. Steve and Jeff Carlson played Steve and Jeff Hanson. The actor David Hanson played Dave Hanson, based on Jack Carlson.
d841j TIL that Laika is not the first animal to travel into space. The title actually goes to a bunch of fruit flies aboard a V2 rocket launched in 1947. They were later recovered alive.