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TIL the first papal index of prohibited books, released in 1559, imposed blanket bans on authors and was so strict that it caused issues on a number of industries: In order to protect book sellers, venetian authories declared that if the church wanted to destroy books, they had to buy them first

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8aykP TIL In 2019, a hipster complained to MIT Technology Review for using his picture to imply hipsters look the same, end up discovering the picture was of an entirely different hipster
GoXN TIL that ritchie valens was only 17 on the day the music died and he recorded “La Bamba” when he was 16.
eZEJ TIL Costco sells approximately 60,000,000 rotisserie chickens every year.
ZBVY TIL that in 19th-century America, the belief that sausages were usually made out of dog meat was so widespread that they started to be called “hot dogs”
14e7 TIL Nazi Germany produced Chlorine Trifluoride for use as a dual purpose incendiary and poison gas in WW2. ClF3 causes almost anything to spontaneously explode on contact, including wood, concrete, sand, gravel, glass, asbestos, water, and of course flesh.