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TIL that Carolyn Davidson was paid 35 dollars for designing the iconic Nike Swoosh logo in 1971

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N7GxM TIL in the Middle Ages, Catholic women were prohibited from having sex on Sundays, Wednesdays, or Fridays, on feast days, while fasting for Lent or Advent or while "impure" (menstruation, pregnancy, 40 days after giving birth & while nursing). Everything but missionary position was considered sodomy
kJPdm TIL in the late 1990s, a Paraguayan girl emerged from a coma; when given a wish, she chose a trip to Ohio to see the Hayes Presidential Center.
rY5w TIL that in Switzerland, “Needle Park”, they opened up a park where it was legal to sell drugs to get it out of the neighborhoods and streets. It eventually turned into a place where junkies did their heroin.
rRM5x TIL that for the theatrical release of "Lilo & Stitch", Disney produced a series of trailers in which Stitch crashes previous Disney movies.
VBmWD TIL that "For EV fires, it's been always very difficult to pinpoint the exact root cause of the fire, because it is extremely difficult to 're-enact' the fire incident with the same conditions,"also; authorities, car makers and battery makers often do not disclose what the exact safety risk is