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TIL Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity once described raping schoolgirls as preferable to consensual gay relationships

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JYyR1 TIL the earliest known surviving pair of socks were designed to be worn with sandals.
9YMKG TIL György Dózsa was executed extremelly cruelly. They made him sit on a heated iron throne and wear a heated iron crown. Then they made his rebel soldiers bite and eat his flesh while priests were singing songs.
nLKb TIL Dogfish Head creates beer recipes based upon the chemical analysis of residue found on pottery and drinking vessels from various archaeological sites. They’re called “Ancient Ales”.
EgW0o TIL the typical Japanese dish "tempura" comes from Portugal. The name comes from Latin "tempora", meaning "times" or "time period", referring to fasting times when Cathloics avoided eating meat and ate fish or vegetables instead
9MgB TIL the common saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results” didn’t originate from Einstein, Ben Franklin, or Confucius but rather from Rita Mae Brown’s paraphrasing a quote from Narcotics Anonymous in 1983.