Like I said I am in America and all we see is how backwards other countries are on the topic. It just feels like America is now in the process of becoming one of them
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL at the Battle of Peleliu in the Pacific during WW2, of the 8 men awarded the Medal of Honor, 6 of them were for throwing themselves atop grenades to save nearby comrades
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that despite homosexual activity being punishable by death in the country, Iran allows gender reassignment surgery, and performs more of them than any country except Thailand.
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that Ferrari & Lamborghini no longer make cars with a manual transmission
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL Mark Twain outlived his wife and all but one of his four children
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World News @lemmy.world Mexico president defends judicial overhaul as US concerns mount
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL a species of monkey known as the Lesula was discovered in 2007 (though already known by locals). It has a brilliantly blue bottom.
World News @lemmy.world Ukraine tests its first ballistic missile, Zelensky says
Today I Learned @lemmy.world Originally coined as "invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL: Edison shocked elephants with AC to disprove Tesla, trying to prove that DC is safer
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL Pablo Escobar was worth 25 billion at the time he was a drug lord.
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Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability
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Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populations
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"
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World News @lemmy.world Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency
World News @lemmy.world Macron on Telegram CEO’s arrest: French government was not involved















Ok probably a stupid question how do these rich shitbags get their money to work for them when in the public they, as you called them shitbags and push propaganda? To me pushing an agenda would do more harm than good instead of using it to organically grow itself without any interference