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TIL Gays & lesbians are literally hunted like animals by packs of people in Russia, and the government condones this behavior

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nW8WP TIL of the spider genus Hotwheels, named after the Hot Wheels toy line. There is only one species in the genus and has only been found in China.
NvZ6 TIL of “Gary Lane Day.” A day the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont dedicated to a man who among other things was “pulled over for head-banging so hard the police thought he was having a seizure.”
mx1ky TIL black people actually ARE much less likely to tip.
X0JWk TIL about Jerry Thomas, considered "the father of American mixology." In 1862, Thomas collected and codified the oral tradition of recipes from the early days of cocktails, including the first written recipes for the Fizz, Flip, Sour, Punch, and Tom Collins.
KYoOB TIL that the Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest