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TIL that being gay isn’t illegal in North Korea, and that young men are often openly affectionate towards each other

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a9GL TIL that some people refuse to believe that HIV causes AIDS, including a woman who’s three year old daughter later died from the disease due to never having had treatment
WXWY TIL Floating cities above the clouds of Venus may be our best bet for becoming a two-planet species. Conditions there are so similar to Earth a human wouldn’t need a pressurized-suit, the gravity is similar and transit times are shorter than to Mars.
Xb5k TIL that “Here Be Dragons” is the “Beam Me Up Scotty” / “Play It Again, Sam” of cartography. The phrase doesn’t actually appear on any old maps.
dYwr TIL that the Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.
OG91e TIL that the Tsaatan people of northern Mongolia are one of the last remaining nomadic reindeer herding cultures, living in harmony with their reindeer in the taiga forests.