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TIL Human sexuality is influenced by genetics

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M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.
P1AGn TIL tabloid newspaper "News of the World", once put out a headline "Hollywood Star's Nazi Secret," falsely claiming Arnold Schwarzenegger was a closeted Hitler supporter whose father rounded up Jews for concentration camps. The article's source? Sylvester Stallone.
ZnpQ TIL Finland has been pioneering a form of deciding upon public policy where people actually think through the problems at issue, ponder on them, consider solutions, test a few of them, and then implement the best.
ZplYG TIL that Toploader, best known for their cover of King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight", were named after a joint-rolling technique.
0wQQj TIL about the Via Francigena, a 1300-year-old Camino-style pilgrimage route from Canterbury through France and Italy to Rome.