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gr999 TIL that the 'brotherly love' in the etymology of the name Philadelphia refers to literal incest, when Ptolemy II married his sister Arsinoe II they both took/were given the name Philadelphos, or 'sibling-lover'.
b6BpE TIL most so-Called “Medieval Torture Devices” are fake actually made up by hoaxers, showmen, and con artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
awWgZ TIL The Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos was not the one who discovered the Pythagorean theorem.