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NK8e TIL: Erotic Asphyxiation started in the 1600’s as a medical treatment for erectile dysfunction when doctors observed that male hanging victims often developed erections.
4e7g TIL in 1999, Douglas Adams founded h2g2.com, The Hitchhiker’s Guide the Galaxy: Earth Edition, a “constantly expanding, user-generated guide to life, the universe and everything,” two years before Wikipedia launched.
R7r6j TIL Tyler Perry’s films are so profitable because he uses his own studios (Tyler Perry Studios), which occupy two former Delta Air Lines affiliated buildings including over 200,000 sq ft. of sets and office space. The Walking Dead also utilizes Tyler Perry Studios to film scenes in The Kingdom.
9xWB TIL There is a super creepy blog that documents every occurance of Jennifer Anniston’s nipples in “Friends”
woVbJ TIL that after abolishing slavery in 1794, France reinstated it in 1802, only finally to abolish it again in 1848.