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nMvP TIL that in 2008, natives of the Greek island of Lesbos appealed to a court in Athens to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe sexual attraction between women, claiming that the island’s inhabitants with their 3000 year old history are the true, original lesbians.
OxAR TIL that despite making up less than 5% of the world’s population, Americans consume 80 percent of the the world’s opioid painkillers and 99 percent of the global supply of hydrocodone, the active ingredient in Vicodin.
j0nE TIL houses with teal pumpkins on their front step at Halloween means they offer non-food treats or allergy safe alternatives for children with food allergies. This is known as the “Teal Pumpkin Project.”
b9yp7 TIL That in Ruilson, Colarado in 1969 became a test site for nukes. In doing this the US tried to use this as a method to drill for natural gas. The only issue? It made it unsuitable for civilian use. A plague now stands there that was erected in 1976
JYOVl TIL It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion