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TIL there is a Hindu Patron God of Transgenders

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BAab TIL that Australian aborigines have stories that tell of events from the last glacial maximum (21,000 years ago) when Australia and Indonesia were connected by a vast land bridge. These stories are some of the oldest extant repositories of human knowledge.
W7LY TIL there’s a webpage that shows the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in ‘Real Time’, capturing the last 18 minutes of the Crew’s and Mission Control’s dialogue as well as Neil’s heart rate as he lands on the Moon.
W74Z4 TIL that the "OBEY" street-art is actually a depiction of Andre the Giant
9v9D TIL a Ukrainian nationalist politician claimed that Mila Kunis was not a true Ukrainian and called her a “zhydovka,” which translates as “dirty Jewess.” The Ukrainian justice ministry ruled that using the term to describe a Jewish person was legal
nd8b TIL there are 12,000 properties designated “severe repetitive loss” properties for which “the flood insurance program has paid the owners for four significant flood claims, two within one decade”, helping to contribute to “about $24 billion in debt and taxpayers are left to pay the claims”