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TIL That homosexuality in China was considered a “normal fact of life” and the appearance of homophobia is attributed to influence of Christianity and Islam.

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epkeD TIL about Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, an Ugandan religious movement whose leaders claimed the apocalypse would occur on Dec 31, 1999. When that passed without incident, a new date Mar 17 was announced and a gathering held. There was a fire, killing all 530 attendees.
wLNNo TIL about the secret bunker at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia that was meant to house Congress in case of a nuclear fallout during the Cold War
XEQnD TIL that there is a company attempting to heal aging and noise-related permanent hearing loss by utilizing the same regenerative properties naturally found in our intestines
oB4D8 TIL there is a road in France that can only be used twice a day, for a few hours. Then It Disappears Under 13 Feet of Water
evrg TIL that in Iran, the US is the “Great Satan”, the USSR was the “Lesser Satan”, and Israel is the “Little Satan”.