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TIL that Aaron Hernandez admitted to being gay/bisexual. He committed suicide in prison 2 days after being outed on a radio show (and 5 days after being acquitted of the double homicide trial in 2017).

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NXnaN TIL we are technically still in an ice age.
x6Xjw TIL In 16th - 17th century Europe and America, the concept of 'bundling' was widely used. This process allowed courting couples to share a bed, fully clothed with a 'bundling board' to separate them. This allowed a pair to talk and get to know each other in the safe confines of the girl's house.
XEm7k TIL At Harvard, Native Americans make up almost 2 percent of the student body. Only 67 percent of Native Americans graduate from high school but there are also "more Native American students applying to 12, 15 colleges, including top institutions, and that was never done before”
9YBPD TIL In 2001, the Mossad dispatched undercover agents in London to monitor a top Syrian official. On the first day of his visit, one team followed him, while another broke into his hotel room and hacked his laptop. In 2007, Israel would launch a night time airstrike against a Syrian nuclear actor.
wX48 TIL John Tyler (born 1790), tenth President of the United States, has two living grandchildren.