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TIL that in Ancient Rome, oral sex in general was seen as somewhat disgusting...and forcing a man to orally fellate another was an appropriate punishment for adultery

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p80gA TIL the inventor of the sewing machine had a dream where cannibals were going to cook him. In the dream their spears had holes at the tip that they raised up and down. This inspired him for the breakthrough of the machine, putting a hole at the tip instead of the base.
v5lx TIL Benjamin Guggenheim, heir to mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim, dressed in his finest suit, had a glass of brandy and smoked a cigar as the Titanic sank. “Tell [my wife] I played the game out straight to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward.”
XENXr TIL that "being on the down-low" was originally a term used by the African-American community to refer to men that identified as heterosexual but secretly had sex with men.
kv1m TIL One of the main reasons Hollywood became the home of American movie production was so that filmmakers could continue to use patented equipment illegally.
BrOkD TIL that the longest river in America by main stem is actually the Missouri, not the Mississippi.