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TIL: Opossums have 13 nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle.

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VeR4 TIL - New York’s underground gay bars of the 1960’s (including the Stonewall Inn) were actually created and supported by the Mafia. It was illegal to be gay. The mob paid off local precincts to keep them from doing raids.
0wGw5 TIL to deflect flight noises from the Amsterdam Airport, an 80-acre park in the shape of perfectly aligned furrows with high ridges in between (inspired by old farming techniques and Chladni patterns), was built. Finished in October 2013, the park cut the noise level in half almost immediately.
oRNWY TIL Maitotoxin-1 is an extremely powerful and potent biotoxin produced by the dinoflagellate species Gambierdiscus toxicus. It has a LD50 of 130ng/kg in mice and it produces one of the most complex and largest non-protein and non-polysaccharide molecules by organisms.
e0JE6 TIL Senator from Massachusetts Edward Brooke the first African-American ever to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, spoke personally of his return from World War II and inability to provide a home of his choice for his new family because of his race.
rR9VM TIL Bill Darden (the founder of Red Lobster) opened his first restaurant, a luncheonette called The Green Frog in Wayward, Georgia at 19 in 1938. He refused to segregate customers by race. Segregation was a state law in 30’s Georgia.