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e0P1k TIL Alan Turing, the mathematician who cracked Enigma ending WWII at least two years early and saving ~11M lives, was a gay man. He was later arrested for being a homosexual and sentenced to chemical castration. Turing mysteriously died of cyanide poisoning.
l7N1K TIL that chickens are actually native to Southeast Asia and Southwest China; they were brought around the world by trading.
5VyYB TIL about the Power of Women artistic and literary Practice in the Renaissance showing "heroic or wise men dominated by women", presenting "an admonitory and often humorous inversion of the male-dominated sexual hierarchy" with Women sitting on top of Men usually
DQQ6g TIL the 23 busiest train stations in the world are all located in Japan.
b6ja4 TIL that in the 19th century, photographers used a technique called "combination printing" to create seamless images by merging multiple negatives, allowing for artistic compositions and overcoming technical limitations of early photography.