#The Rainbow Collective | A queer/lgbtqia+, intersectional community clan.

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Who are we?
The Rainbow Collective is a queer and intersectional osrs community. We are anti-fascist, anti-racist, inclusive, open and supportive of all of those who would call us home. Our leadership team aims to be transparent and accountable, and seeks to include all of our members in all major decisions regarding our community.

What do we do?
We run a variety of events; from Barrows and Woodcutting to Bankstanding, casual art hangouts and fundraising events for the charities and causes we believe in, and we maintain a safe discord space and CC where our members can relax and grow with our support.

Why do we do it?
So many of us have had terrible experiences with clans that would claim to include us but ultimately fail when push comes to shove. We can’t change society forever, but we can make a space that’s safe for us. If you’re gay, lesbian, bi, ace, aro, trans or just plain queer; if you’re plural or ND or have PTSD or are simply an ally to those who are. We’re here.

How do I join?
Send me a message, check out our website, or follow the link discord link below. There's a short app on the discord to weed out trolls, but I promise it's nothing scary. https://discord.com/invite/NAkpZpgGGx

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The Rainbow Collective | A queer/lgbtqia+, intersectional community clan.

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France consumes 22lb/10kg of mustard per person per year (bump)

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The English word 'Portmanteu' describes words that have been smushed together to make a new word, like 'brunch' or 'spork'. It was originally used in English to refer to a particular type of luggage, having been stolen from the french word for 'coat rack'. There doesn't seem to have been an official word for this word-smushing in French until some 100 years later, when they decided to use the word 'mot-valise', which literally means 'word suitcase'.

This is all very silly, since it means we stole a French word and played around with it, then the French liked the -idea- of the word and stole -that- instead of using the word we'd originally stolen.

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Bumps for a wonderful person ❤️

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And another bumps because you’re wonderful!

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Bumps 🌈

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According to a strict interpretation of the International Astronomical Union's definition of a planet, there are no planets in our solar system.

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One province in Canada - Saskatchewan - is responsible for the production of 44% of all the world's lentils.

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Legally speaking, tomatos are vegetables. For tax reasons.

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Sometimes an animal's name tells you a lot about it; sometimes much less so. The 'eight eyed blood hedgehog' has no eyes, doesn't have blood and isn't a hedgehog. It is, infact, a worm.

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'Caesar salad' is named after it's inventor Caesar Cardini, a italian immigrant to Mexico. He was very firm that it should never contain anchovies.

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Seals are extremely cuddly and playful, but don't realise that they weigh up to several tons. This can be unfortunate for the target of their hugs.

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Before the proliferation of domestic refrigeration, the most convenient form of... Everything was in a can. Since oysters couldn't be properly refrigerated, they were canned. Waffles? Canned. If you wanted it preserved, it was probably salted. Or in a can. Or salted in a can.

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The xoloitzcuintli (or 'xolo' for short) is a south american breed of hairless dogs - think hairless cats, but less scrungly and the size of a medium to large dog. They're adorable, and not fans of the cold.

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The barking shark is a shark that lives around Aotearoa. They bark by releasing all their air at once as they surface. I have no idea why they do this, but I'm sure they're good puppies.

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Black pepper was once so expensive that a shipload was literally worth more than the king of england could afford - back when it was a colonial empire.

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The catchily named j1407b is a super saturn with rings so large that they occluded the host star for -three weeks- during observation. They're .6 AU in diameter, and if the planet was in the same position as our saturn (and a few other planets were removed to make space), then not only would the rings be visible in the night sky; they would be -three times the size of the moon-.

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The day with the highest rate of emergency fire incidents in the US isn't in the middle of summer or the 4th of july - it's thanksgiving. This is in large part because people keep trying to deepfry turkeys.

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The French version of the name Stephen is Ettiene.

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Australia consumes the most burgers per person per year - by a lot. Aus is at 38, the US in second at 28 and France in a surprise third at 25.

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The modern saying 'to curry favour' originally actually had nothing to do with curry at all. The expression comes from the french 'curry fauvel', which is itself a reference to a 14th century illustrated french poem (Roman de Fauvel) warning people about the duplicitous and corrupting influence of chestnut horses (especially with regards to men). I have no idea why this idea resonated so deeply with people in the 1300s that it spread throughout europe, or how it morphed into the current 'to curry favour', or why people mistrusted chestnut horses so deeply.

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The first recorded vending machine was made in 50CE, and dispensed holy water.

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Curry powder is actually a blend of five spices, and has nothing to do with the curry tree.

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Italy is both the world's largest importer -and- exporter of olive oil. This is because under Italian law olive oil only needs to be -bottled- in Italy to be able to call itself 'Italian olive oil'.

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So far as we have been able to determine, the naked mole rat is biologically immortal. They don't get cancer, and they don't die of old age. They are, unfortunately, extremely short sighted, very slow and not terribly bright. If they weren't, they'd probably be running things by now.

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Saccoglossans (kind of like sea slugs) can regrow their entire body from just their head. They can also detatch their whole body voluntarily.

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If a sea urchin can put something on its head, it will. This is a behaviour that helps them blend in and hide their body on the sea floor, but it -also- means that if you put a small cowboy hat in a tank with a sea urchin it will try to wear it.

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Sharks don't have a single mean bone in their body. Infact they have no bones, so they cannot be mean.

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It is official pokemon lore that pokeballs work because when pokemon get tired or startled they react by becoming really, really small. I am not kidding.

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Sharks' favourite music genres are metal and rock. Obviously we can't prove -why- this is, and it's probably just because of the patterns of vibrations - but I like to think they know what's up.

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It takes an average of 27 black crocus flowers to make up a single gram of saffron. Most saffron is still picked by hand.

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Officially, water geysers cannot exist in space. If they're not on earth, the proper name is 'cryo volcano'. I think that sounds much cooler anyway.

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Horse radishes have nothing to do with horses and are not particularly related to radishes.

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Poland consumes the most apples per person per year of any country at 48lb/22kg. Despite this, they have a perfectly average amount of doctors. I checked.

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There's a breed of bunny called the dwarf hotot who are born with little circles of black fur around their eyes that often looks like perfect eyeliner.

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From 1942 to 1976, pinball machines were banned in Newyork under regulations purportedly designed to target illegal gambling and mob activity.

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A sufficiently large object orbiting a moon is called a 'moonmoon'. So far as I know, there's no consensus on the name of 3rd order moons, but I vote for moonmoonmoon.

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Columbus Ohio is both where Guy Fieri was born and where Chef Boyardee opened his first restaurant. In 2020 there were a pair of petitions to rename the city to 'Flavortown' and replace the statue of colombus with one of Chef Boyardee. (Which would have been awesome.)

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(Brief pause in advertising while we're near cap and I do some tidying. You can still join up if you're interested ^.^ I just won't be doing weird facts for two weeks.)

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Purge complete ^.^ Weird facts will resume next bump :P

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Because of the lack of wind and rain on the moon, lunar dust is as sharp as glass. Even if you could somehow live there, you really shouldn't.

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The first example of a modern zombie apocalypse scenario was a smurfs comic.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mespotamian epic dating back to 2100BCE. It's one of the oldest surviving peices of literature in general and tells the story of Gilgamesh (a king of Sumer) and how he met his 'companion' Enkidu (with whom he was extremely gay.)

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Emmental cheese prefers hip-hop. Exposure to hip-hop while maturing results in a 'deeper, fruitier flavour', while the other musics tested (classic, pop and rock) resulted in 'a weaker, mild flavour'. The cheesemaking community has embraced this, and marketing around emmental and emmental events now often include local hip-hop artists.

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Samuel Pepys was a 17th century diarist and administrator who is famous for his extensively narrated diaries, which were treated as reliable historical documents for a very long time in large part because they were so incredibly bland and boring that no one could possibly have made them up. Guess what? He made them up.

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In 18th century France, 'macarons', 'macaroons' and 'macaroni' were all called 'macarooney'. I'm sure this wasn't confusing at all.

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The original jack o' lanterns were made out of turnips, since they wouldn't have access to pumpkins for another few hundred years. I don't know if you've ever tried to carve a turnip, but I don't know how they managed without losing their hands.

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Theres species of bird called bearded vultures and many of them like to use "makeup". They've been witnessed to dye their greyish and white feathers to red and we are unsure why, but I like to think they just want to look pretty.
PS Sorry Ava just liked reading these when I wake up and didnt see one today Blobhaj_Hug

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Thick, carpeted flooring became a thing some 50 years before the invention of the vacuum cleaner; it was considered a status symbol and display of wealth, since it meant you could afford to have someone spend hours cleaning it. The first vacuum cleaners were a hired service, and were the size of a carriage. Despite the noise and expense they were quite popular :P

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The Morten Bay Fig is a very pretty tree with lovely sprawling roots, and it just looks so comfortable. What isn't obvious, though, is that it's part of a family of non-fruiting fig trees called 'parasitic figs', which means that in order to grow a sapling its seeds need to latch onto and consume the sapling of another tree.

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Beans actually -are- cool. A range of fruits and vegetables including beans, cucumbers and watermelons that have a tough exterior and comparatively watery interior actually keep their insides about 2c/5.6f cooler than the surrounding environment.

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Moths and butterflies are the same order of insect. We treat them like they're different linguistically, but practically speaking they're inseprable and indistinguishable. This is also true of toads and frogs, where 'toad' is basically just a label we give to frogs that are less pretty. They're still frogs.

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People are known to either like or hate broccoli, but maybe we should give the broccoli some time. Broccolis actually have flowers and grow into tens if not hundreds little yellow flowers if left in peace.

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This is, however, due to broccoli's dark secret. Broccoli... Is mustard.

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The dandelion's name comes from the original french 'dent de lion', or 'teeth of the lion'. While the serrated leaves could easily be seen as tooth-like, it always amuses me that not only did someone see this adorable flower that turns into a puff and blows away and think it's most striking feature was it's resemblance to a lion's teeth, but they were able to convince a good chunk of europe to agree with them.

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When it was time for the first muslim astronaut to go into space, Malaysia convened a meeting of 150 islamic scholars to write a white paper about what it means to face mecca for prayer when you can't control your plane of movement and are in zero g. I think thats cool :P

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'Astronaut icecream' (a freeze-dried icecream snack) has never been to space.

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Camels are not native to Australia, but they do love it here. Australia has become a major player in camel exports not just because they are essentially endemic to our deserts, but because Australian camels are well known for their 'speed and beauty'. I am not making that up.

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Speaking of camels, there's an international camel beauty pageant circuit - which is part of why Australian camels being 'so beautiful' is good for our exports market. It's sadly rife with cheating, with multiple camels being removed from the competition each year for 'performance enhancements' including cosmetic surgeries and botox.

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Gnocchi is a type of pasta made of rounded lumps of dough, normally potato - although other vegetables like sweet potato and pumpkin have also been used traditionally. You're probably familiar with it. 'Gnocchi a la parisienne', however, is a french take on gnocchi that is about as far from gnocchi as it gets. Instead of dough, you use choux pastry. Instead of boiling them, they're baked and then fried. I have no idea what compelled them to do this, but someone has a lot to answer for.

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The Doom game engine seems to be becoming increasingly popular among makers of fangames. Recent and semi-recent releases include a castlevania total conversion mod which is... Pretty jank but definitely full of passion, and Sonic Robo Blast 2 which is an actual good 3d sonic game. I really don't know why they chose the doom engine, but they're cool ^.^

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Flemmish Lop bunnies can grow to be more than 3 feet in length.

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Sega released their early consoles under different names in different countries for marketing reasons, which is understandable if confusing. Less understandable, though, is that the korean release of the sega genesis/mega drive was called the 'super aladin boy'.

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Modern carrots are primarily orange instead of purple because the dutch didn't like the colour yellow.

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There are so, so many pac man spin off games, and they're all both very strange and terrible. There are auto scrolling platformers, shooter games, rpgs, a marble-roller puzzle game, a point and click tamagochi adventure game... And I have no idea who thinks they're a good idea, or why :P

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France consumes 22lb/10kg of emmental cheese per person per year. This is -also- the weight of the average emmental cheese wheel (which is larger than most cheeses because of historical tax evasion). I know this is a coincidence, but I like the idea of everyone going to the store at newyears and rolling their yearly cheese wheel home.

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Norse mythology is often portrayed as extremely metal and gritty, but it's actually full of very silly and absurd stories. My favourite is the one about how the king of the frost giants and jormunganr the world serpent got together to play a prank on thor. Jormungandr transformed into the shape of a tiny kitten and the king challenged thor to lift them, then mocked him when he failed :P

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Sometimes companies will do very weird things to try to make their products 'more attractive to men/women.' You've seen this with shavers and moisturisers, obviously, but my favourite is food. Dr pepper once marketed a diet dr pepper under the name 'Dr Pepper 10', which contained 'Only 10 MANLY calories' and was 'Absolutely NOT for women'. Strangely, it wasn't a big hit :P

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Mantis shrimp are -weird-. Sure, they can punch hard enough to boil water and have 37 genders (both perfectly normal things), but they can also see 16 different spectrums of light... And their brain can only process one at a time.

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Most of sanfansisco is built on the ruins of a shipyard that burnt down, and instead of cleaning up the wreckage they just decided to... Fill it in and live on it. This leads to very silly things sometimes, like when they were digging tunnels for a rail extension and found a whole intact ship buried in the side of a hill.

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All trees that are native to Australia are deciduous, so spotting imposters is easy. Go outside in winter and if you see something with leaves, it's a plant. :P

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The original Marsh Mallow is a flower/flowering shrub* that grows in excess of 6 feet tall. Its roots were (and are) turned into a traditional persian food called halva, which is the basis for modern sugar-gelatin-and-starch marshmallows.

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*I'd originally heard it refered to as a tree, and I think it deserves it. Plus, then we'd be able to say marshmallows grow on trees.

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I have been unable to find a single organisation throughout history that had capes as a part of its uniform and -wasn't- evil.

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The hairless variant of the guineapig is called the 'skinnypig'. They look... Kind of like a cross between a rat and a mole. Poor things.

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Brussel sprouts are -actually- from Brussels, unlike almost every other place-named food.

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The modern 'carat' system for measuring the weight and purity of gold and gemstones is based of the medival arabic qirat, or 'carob seed'. There was a widespread myth (likely encouraged by unscrupulous merchants) that all carob seeds weighed exactly the same and were therefore the best way to verify a gemstone's value.

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Despite being viewed as 'undesirable, disease bearing pests' in modern times, the pigeon was raised for food, used for communication and bred as a status symbol for the wealthy for around 5,000 years. The only pigeon that has maintained a positive reputation is the white dove, despite it being the same bird as all the others in slightly different clothing.

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'Wand of Gamelon' is the zelda game that no one talks about, and for good reason. Despite a truly beautiful world map, the game is filled with what could be generously refered to as 'mspaint cutscenes', and includes such wonderful design decisions as 'invisible enemies that can instakill you'.

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Nutella uses roughly a third of the world's yearly production of hazelnuts.

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Back before we had the internet, television and mass market paperbacks to sate our need for entertainment, things got... Weird. Like 'The crash at crush' in 1896, where thousands of people from across the country flocked to texas to watch someone smash two trains together.

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Watermelons, pumpkins and zucchini are all part of a loose group of fruits and vegetables that will continue to grow as long as they have available water. For zucchini, this is a reproductive strategy - if there's enough water, they'll grow as quickly as they can and make as many seeds as they can then kind of goop it over the soil. For watermelons, it's a firm negative - watermelons have very hard outer shells, and if you give them too much water they'll just explode. For pumpkins, their skins are a little more forgiving and you can carefully grow them to absurd size. As long as they don't explode. Or turn into goop.

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Atlantic halibut (and a variety of other fish) are born with one eye on each side of their head - but as they mature their eyes both migrate to be more centrally located on just one side. It makes sense when you consider they hide on the sea floor, but it does look a bit odd :P

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Pride is a reminder, and a memory. Sometimes, someone needs to throw the first brick. You are worth more than silence <3

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Bi lesbians are awesome and valid. Sometimes descriptors like this melt people's brains, and if you're one of those people you can dm me for the 101.

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(I probably don't have enough queer facts for all of pride, but there will definitely be more this month than usual. Although; all of my facts are queer facts, because they're mine.)

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The split attraction model isn't perfect, but it's useful to consider. It reminds us that who we're aesthetically attracted to (the appearances we find attractive) can be different to who we find romantically attractive, which can be different to who we find physically attractive and so on. Not everyone experiences split attractions, but if you do you're totally valid and we've got you <3

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To link the last two bumps: It's entirely possible to have labels which might seem overlapping or 'contradictory' at first glance, but it's important to remember that we don't need to -understand- it in order to -accept- it. Anothers' sexuality or how they feel about romance or gender doesn't effect us unless we want it to involve us.

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(The pride event just dropped, and there are people being trashy as ever. This is your reminder that the opinions of others do not define you, and cannot change you. Heck them.)

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'Queer' includes everyone who wants to be included by it. Aces? Queer. Aros? Queer. Alterous? Demi? Flux? Fray? Caed? Recipro? Apotheo? Queer. You don't need a letter; you'll always be here <3

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Pronouns are the personal nouns that others use to refer to us. Everyone is familiar with the 'binary' english pronouns of he/him and she/her, and they/them has thankfully become pretty commonly understood - but as with anything, we're more varied than you'd expect. There are neopronouns like fae/faer and zey/zem, object pronouns like it/its, pronoun sets where each choice presented is equally valid, pronouns that change based upon mood or context... And all of them are awesome <3

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Sappho was an ancient greek poet born somewhere around 620BCE. She was so incredibly gay that her life and works have become synonymous with wlw. The terms 'sapphic' and 'lesbian' both come from her, and so do a bunch of archaic phrases like 'to sail forth from lesbos' and 'friend of sappho', as well as cheesey-nerdy-terrible pickup lines like 'I'm quite familiar with the works of sappho'.

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Almost everyone loves flowers, but did you know that LGBTIA+ communities have made use of flowers in diverse ways – as markers of identity, symbols of solidarity, or personal statements of affection between partners. Within societies where openly queer behaviour was criminalised, members of LGBTIA+ communities have used flowers to find safe and subtle ways of communicating with each other.
For example Ava mentioned Sappho yesterday and she popularized gay women to wear violets as they were often mentioned in her works! Theres alot more flowers and colours with meaning but Ill let interested people explore on their own (otherwise this bump will be looong)

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Hatshepsut was born in the 16th century BCE, and was quintessentially queer. We obviously know very little about how she identified or considered herself, but what we do know for sure is that her presentation in official art and lore is changable and that she used feminine pronouns and address. There are statues of her with a beard and wearing masculine dress, and carvings of her as a baby boy, and the law considered her masculine and feminine at different points. She went on to become pharoah, and was referred to with many titles including 'the king herself'. Historians obviously can't agree about a thing and there have been various attempts to erase the fact that she existed at all, but I'm glad that she did.

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Every colour on the original rainbow flag has a meaning, and you might've even learnt these in-game in OSRS as Gilberts flowers have them in their examine texts! (Also second fun fact, if you didn't know Gilbert was named after one of the artists who designed the first rainbow flags)

Red means life
Orange means healing 
Yellow means sunlight 
Green means nature
Blue means harmony
Violet means spirit
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Your gender is what you wish it. You don't need to take hormones or convince the government or present yourself a certain way. If you want to be a girl? You're a girl, and I think you're awesome. A boy? Done. Both? No gender? Something else? You don't need to 'prove' who you are to be worth validation and acceptance. We've got you <3

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Gender can be extremely granular, even within the 'binary'. My experience of being a girl and my relationship with the -idea- of girl is really different to a lot of other girls I know. This is something that trans people are very familiar with, but cis people rarely consider - and I think that's a shame. Just because you're a guy or a girl doesn't mean your gender is going to feel the same to you as everyone else in your bucket. Who are you? How do you feel? What does that mean? Know yourself <3

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Gender, sexuality and the way we experience attraction in general can change over time. Society would have us believe that it's static; that we're born one way and stay that way until we cease - But just because you were something in the past doesn't mean you can't be something else now. Just because you're something now doesn't mean you can't be something else in the future. Let yourself stretch and learn and grow, and don't limit yourself to what you've known <3

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Varla is my favourite zone in the game, and also has both a canonical nonbinary character (Soar leader Pitri) and a lesbian (Guildmaster Apatura), which always brings me joy <3

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Ok; I'm out of pride month facts without having to google, and I like using things I have at hand for ads :P So we're back to corn.

While in modern times 'corn' refers to a specific group of maize cultivars, in the past it refered to any kind of seed grain - including wheat, oats and barley. This makes researching the history of corn really hard, since people will happily talk about things made from corn that would very much not pass muster in modern times :P

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Our latest estimates tell us that for every solar system, there are somewhere between 2 and 10,000 rogue planets without a star. It's... A bit of a range :P

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Allspice is not a spice at all. It's a dried, powdered fruit.

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Cartographers usually add trap streets and sometimes even trap towns into their maps to prevent plagiarism, so sometimes you can see area names on maps near you that are actually fictional

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Mercury rotates once for every three full orbits of the sun, meaning its day is three years long.

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We're filling up pretty quickly and I don't want to do another purge just two months after the last one, so I'm pausing active recruitment for a bit. Bumps will resume after I give in and do another purge.

If you've found this thread despite it not being bumped, well done :P You're still welcome to join up <3

A parting fact: Microwaves were originally considered a luxury good. Not only were they incredibly expensive, but they were advertised as a kitchen cure-all. They recommended you use them for roasts, pastries, meatloafs and many other things that I hope no one in modern times uses them for :P

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Bump <3

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We just did a purge again and have a little space this time <3 Come by and say hi.

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According to krispy kreme corporate, a store that makes its own donuts isn't a store, or even a factory; it's a 'Hot light theater'.

I don't know what's going on there, but I'm sure someone in marketing is proud of themselves.

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Socrates famously refused to write down any of his own thoughts or philosophies, believing that the proliferation of reading and writing were leading to laziness, impatience and forgetfulness in greece's youth. He felt that if someone wished to know something, they should seek out a master and learn from them in person, and that nothing else would suffice. Alas. Kids these days.

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Watermelons were originally grown for the water they contain and their ability to keep it relatively cool and clean. Breeding them to contain an edible volume of fruit instead of just pith is a relatively recent idea.

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No one knows why zebras have stripes. There's a whole lot of theories and people who claim they have the definitive answer, but nothing actually concrete. My favourite is the guy who claimed that the stripes would confuse flies.

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When CS Lewis' chronicles of narnia were released, most of the uk did not actually call 'turkish delight' 'turkish delight'. It was called 'lumpy delight'. Which... Only in the uk.

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Silvio Berlusconi (a former italian priminister) was an objectively horrible person. Greater than any of his other crimes, perhaps, was his dislike of pesto.

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(This is very much a joke. My less humourous thoughts about him would not be discord appropriate :P)

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Cucumbers actually -are- cool. Their structure and moisture content mean they're about 2c cooler than the surrounding environment.