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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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gMMG9 TIL two things about Andrew Lincoln (of 'The Walking Dead'): 1.) His real name is Andrew James Clutterbuck, and 2.) His father-in-law is Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
16bZP TIL that Chex (originally Shredded Ralston) was created by pseudoscience writer Webster Edgerly as a food to give mind control powers to white people.
kpR4 TIL of Mary Turner, a black woman killed in 1918. A mob hung her upside down from a tree and set her on fire. Still alive, a member of the mob cut her stomach open with a knife. Her unborn child fell on the ground, where it was stomped on and crushed. Finally, her body was shot hundreds of times.
gMZ98 TIL: In 1953 when Frank Olson a bacteriologist and CIA employee fell from the window of a NYC hotel room his death was ruled suicide. >2 decades later, his family was awarded a $750K settlement as his death was tied to a top-secret government experiment and some subjects were illegally tested upon.
wL0gY TIL that Qatar is 25% female