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TIL After a psychotherapy experiment in a convent 300 nuns petitioned the Vatican to be released from their vows leaving only a small group of radical lesbian nuns.

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grPK9 TIL that ciabatta bread was invented only in the early '80s by a baker in Italy as a response to the rising popularity of sandwiches made from imported French baguettes
4XlyJ TIL that black essayist James Baldwin had an 1,884-page FBI file, one of the longest in Bureau history. Truman Capote, one of the most-suspected writers of the era, only had a 110-page file
4kyMg TIL a 1896 study found that 90% of all commercial ketchups contained “injurious ingredients” that could lead to death. So "at a time when no one else cared" Henry Heinz was obsessed with making products as pure as possible. His see-through bottles were a design statement: purity through transparency
lolGa TIL that there is a company that secretly takes continuous, rapid, high-resolution aerial photos of crime-plagued cities to help police “rewind” time to view a crime as it happens and then to “fast-forward” the movement of suspects to their present locations.
WNBo TIL Bernie Madoff’s attorneys collected $700 million in fees - millions that could have gone to his victims.