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Today I learned that, prior to the advent of Christianity, the LGBT were esteemed by Native Americans as having two spirits.

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m4lx TIL That Oda Nobunaga was so disrespectful at his own father’s funeral that one of his mentors committed seppuku
Bg0yL TIL that two billionaires each married the same woman. Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos were rival Greek shipping tycoons who married a total of seven times. Onassis first married Athina Livanos, then Jacqueline Kennedy (JFK's widow); Athina later became one of Niarchos's five wives.
awdEy Today I Learned the ambulance service in most towns used to be ran by the funeral home. So if you needed to be taken to the hospital, you called the funeral home, and they’d use their hearse to transport you to the hospital (until purpose built ambulances became available in the late ‘60s & ‘70s).
W7gMd TIL that Bermuda grass is not native to the island of Bermuda, but is considered an invasive species there.
m1XLo TIL of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was awarded 1989-2010 in the honor of the Libyan dictator