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TIL when the game Twister came out it was accused by its competitors of selling “sex in a box”. The game did not get popular until it was played on The Tonight Show in 1966

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LQXbV TIL Irish monks invented the Catholic practice of confessing to a priest and performing penance in private. Prior to this, confessions and penance were done publicly.
1aEkO TIL Juha Mieto of Finland lost the 15km cross county skiing event at the 1980 Olympics by 1/100 of a second. After this event the International Ski Federation changed its rules to round times to the nearest tenth of a second.
16kJd TIL Bruce Timm, creator and producer of Batman: The Animated series and many other DC comic animation projects, released two artbooks full of erotic drawings titled "Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm" and "The Big Tease: A Naughty and Nice Collection"
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DQD4D TIL that the world record for the longest Uber ride is 2,798 miles, set by YouTuber Mathew Beem in July 2021