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TIL 21% of transgender individuals in the US have served in the armed forces.

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ABRd TIL there are sea wolves that live on the coast of British Columbia. They comb the beach for barnacles, herring roe, and beached whales, and some will even even eat salmon. Most of these wolves have never even seen a deer.
EEVo TIL that only one species of frog goes “Ribbit”, but it has become a national and global cliche because that frog resides in Hollywood and was used for sound effects
eJ75 TIL the line from The Martian, “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this” isn’t translatable into several other languages. In the French translation: “I’ll have to shit out a lot of science to get out of this.” In Russian, “Only science can pull me out of this shit”.
JYB14 TIL that in 1410, King Martin of Aragon died from a combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughter triggered by a joke told by his favourite court jester.
ePYb TIL fleeing the Japanese in WWII Burma, a group of refugees spent two days carving a 270-foot staircase into a mountain so that they and 52 elephants could escape