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j6Pnp TIL: The massive, multinational tableware company Oneida started in 1848 as a sex cult that invented the term "free love" and featured, among other things, middle-aged women acting as sexual mentors to adolescent boys and a focus on men withholding their orgasm during intercourse (coitus reservatus)
rRnKe TIL the witching hour is the time of night between 3 - 4 a.m. in western christianity considered to be when supernatural events are at their most powerful and frequent due to the absence of prayers
jNwGE Til About the Babe Ruth Story, a 1948 biopic of the eponymous baseball star that is considered to be the worst baseball film ever made. In it, Babe Ruth is portrayed as miraculously healing several children and a dog with his baseball antics.
DEAY TIL that Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan’s journey from Earth to Mars took 6 months, which is less than Christopher Columbus’ first journey from Europe to America (8 months)
LQxGd TIL that the Nemi ships, built in the 1st century AD during the reign of Roman emperor Caligula, were destroyed by fire during WW2.