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TIL that after Germany's openly-gay Foreign Minister called the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko "Europe's last dictator", Lukashenko responded that it was "better to be a dictator than gay".

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B4Je TIL that while he was writing the score for The Last Samurai, Hans Zimmer felt that his knowledge of Japanese music was very limited even after doing extensive research. When he took what he had written to Japan for feedback he was shocked when he was asked how he knew so much about Japanese music.
E5Rp TIL eHarmony only matches women with men who are taller than them, because of complaints from women matched with short men
OjRY TIL: There is an Academy Award Category for Best Original Musical, but it hasn’t been awarded since Purple Rain in 1984 due to lack of contenders
D1KdY TIL the Second Congo War (1998-2003), relatively recent but almost unknown about in the West, has the worst death toll of any one conflict since the Second World War. 350,000 violent deaths, but the conflict is considered responsible for the deaths between 2,500,000 and 5,400,000 people.
GYXpE TIL: 14-year-old Roman Emperor Elagabalus was a cross-dressing, sex-obsessed torture fiend who may have invented the whoopee cushion. He loosed venomous snakes into gladiatorial crowds and released his pet lions and leopards into banquet halls or the bed chambers of his guests.