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TIL that the sign of the horns (rock and roll hand sign) is an offensive gesture in many countries symbolizing cuckoldry

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b6Odp TIL that excommunicated Martin Luther, who had a history of depression, argued that suicide is not sin. Further cementing his differences with the Catholic Church.
e0XVD TIL George Washington's salary as a US President was 2% of the total US budget at that time.
ZP8p TIL in 1953, there was only 53K of RAM in the entire world.
Vgep TIL that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. lack the math competency expected of an 8th grader
or6W TIL that in 1996 a woman solicited a man to torture and kill her in the first case of Internet mediated consensual homicide