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TIL that in ancient Rome, giving fellatio was seen as a disgusting, shameful act, while receiving it wasn't. So sometimes petty crimes were solved by punishing the criminal through forcing him/her to perform fellatio on the victim of the crime, instead of taking the case to court.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 01:32PM by TheSoulOfTheRose
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TIL: for years Chrysler advertised their luxury cars as containing 'Corinthian leather' with Ricardo Montalbán as the spokesman. On Late Night with David Letterman Montalbán playfully admitted that the term meant nothing. The leather was actually sourced from New Jersey.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 02:45PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL Angel Lust (Death Erection) is when an erection in occurs in men after death. A number of Renaissance artists depicted a crucified Jesus with a death erection. This art was suppressed by the Catholic Church for several centuries.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 04:45PM by amansaggu26
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TIL Charlie Chaplin was the subject of an FBI investigation due to alleged communist sympathies during the height of McCarthyism. He later said "As for politics, I am an anarchist. I hate government and rules - and fetters ... People must be free."
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 06:28PM by whatllmyusernamebe2
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TIL: British Navy officers play Britney Spears songs to scare off Somali pirates. The rationale of playing these songs is because, supposedly, Somali pirates have a strong dislike for western culture and music, which make Britney Spears’ songs a perfect fit to make them move on quickly.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 07:46PM by M_F_B_00003
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TIL in New York City, over 690 subway trains were delayed due to people jumping on the track. And over 726 trains were delayed due to litter and garbage fires... in one month.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 04:21PM by cityboy2
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TIL that one of the earliest instances of Phreaking, (hacking into telephone lines,) was discovered via blowing a Captain Crunch toy whistle into a phone line. This toy , coincidentally, rang at 2600 Hz, which is the exact tone that At&T used to determine that a caller had hung up.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 08:34PM by InsertEdgyNameHere
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TIL that Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was so goth that she lost her virginity on her mom's grave
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 09:27PM by pairadise
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TIL that various Nazis used a secret codeword to get exclusive service at a Nazi run brothel. Joseph Goebbels enjoyed “lesbian displays”, and an SS general enjoyed an all-night orgy with 20 girls. The building was tapped. Mussolini’s son in law was recorded expressing negative opinions of Hitler.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 05:59PM by Tokyono
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TIL shortly after returning from the moon Buzz Aldrin began to suffer from alcoholism and depression. "I wanted to resume my duties, but there were no duties to resume. There was no goal, no sense of calling, no project worth pouring myself into."
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 11:49PM by Mrbrionman
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TIL about Nameless, Texas. After submitting six names in order to get a post office and having all six rejected, citizens responded by stating, "Let the post office be nameless and be damned!" The government accepted this suggestion and the town of Nameless was born.
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Submitted October 01, 2019 at 01:24AM by black_flag_4ever
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TIL of Varina Davis, first lady of the Confederacy. Criticized for her olive skin tone and high level of literacy, she later became a newspaper columnist, was friends with Julia Grant (widow of Ulysses S. Grant) and declared in an article in 1901 that "the right side won the civil war".
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 08:07PM by F_D_P
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TIL of Baggins Syndrome The mix of nostalgic longing for a home that no longer exists the way you remember, combined with the fact that seeing the world changes your perspective of the world.
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Submitted October 01, 2019 at 02:59AM by jgnodado18
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TIL that MRI of dogs revealed that dogs prioritize the smell of their owners above anything as dog owners' aroma causes an activation activation in the "reward center" of their brains, called the caudate nucleus.
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Submitted September 30, 2019 at 09:33PM by simonfimon
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TIL Kurt Cobain wrote this text in the liner notes of Incesticide album: "I have a request to our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us — leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records."
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Submitted October 01, 2019 at 04:24AM by DejectedSoul
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TIL Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
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Submitted October 01, 2019 at 05:04AM by HauntedFrigateBird
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