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a8WL TIL in 1966, a group of therapists psycho-analyzed an entire convent of nuns, experimenting with personal liberation. Within 18mo, half the nuns [300] left the convent; the rest became radicalized lesbian nuns. [BBC doc]
EgMj7 TIL that’s illegal to not smile in Milan, Italy. The exceptions are for people who attend funerals or those at the bedside of a family member suffering from a serious disease.
g9l8 TIL that once Yo Yo Ma, a famous cellist, played in Steve Job’s living room and Jobs called his performance “the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God.”
Lkxpr TIL Jeffery Dahlmer was converted and baptized in prison in 1994, where he continued meeting with the minister who baptized him. The pastor received a Thanksgiving Day card in November 1994, thanking him for teaching him God's word. Dahlmer died a few days later.
4X8KX TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.