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Today I learned about femcels, although I still don't believe I fully understand it all. Up until now I had only known incels.

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J7w1 TIL that soldiers erroneously believed that the Ace in a pack of Bicycle playing cards was a symbol of death to the Viet Cong army and would scatter them around the jungle.
nWrnP Today I learned that Pat Buttram (the guy who voiced Napoleon in "The Aristocats" and the Sheriff of Nottingham in "Robin Hood") was a staunch Republican who often helped Ronald Reagan with his speeches.
9LMG TIL: The Zika virus is the first insect-borne disease that has been shown to pass from human to human by sexual contact. Zika is normally transmitted by mosquitoes. It has symptoms similar to dengue fever.
YpBrZ TIL Joel Silver, producer for some of the greatest action franchises of all time (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, The Matrix, etc), also was one of the three college kids who created Ultimate Frisbee.
mORM TIL that the French military actually has the best military record in the world having won 723 of the 1211 battles they fought in the last 800 years