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TIL David Bowie used to secretly respond to fans on message boards under the nickname ‘Sailor’.

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16bnV TIL Male to female anal sex was illegal in renaissance Florence. In 1510, in an attempt to damage N.Machiavelli's rising career as a bureaucrat, someone filed an anonymus report, which was posted publicly: "N.Machiavelli is fucking Lucretia, known as Riccia, in the ass". The charge was dropped
j6JYN TIL that almost 3% of films released in the 1960s included depictions of people sinking in quicksand, clay or mud
LQONd TIL that Mrs Brown from the sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys was originally going to be played by an actress but she never showed up so the creator, Brendon O'Carroll, stepped in to take over the role.
VB1v0 TIL Hindu Balinese place little baskets of flowers, food, incense and money everywhere as offerings to the gods (Canang Sari) which also serve to feed stray animals
XKDk TIL Abraham Lincoln, who ran as a Republican during the era of Whigs and Democrats, was America’s last third-party candidate to successfully win the presidency.