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TIL of Dolly Oesterreich, a Milwaukee woman who kept a voluntary sex slave in the attics of her two homes, her husband and 2 lovers none the wiser, for about 10 years. Despite the murder of her husband and her attempts to cover it up she was never convicted and eventually died at the age of 80.

d8YY8 TIL Morocco was once a haven for gay Americans and Europeans who wanted to bang inside buildings or dungeons. As back then the society was full of paradoxes, people were able to be free.
VMaMm TIL the Vietnamese word for honey, "mật ông," is widely accepted by linguists to be related to the English word "mead," as the Vietnamese word came from Chinese, which in turn, got it from the now-extinct Indo-European Tocharian language once spoken in present-day NW China.
Bg79y TIL The Blood-stained Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy wore in JFK’s assassination remains uncleaned and is currently stored inside a climate-controlled vault in the National Archives and will remain "out of public view" until at least 2103.
QN7xa TIL that some celebrities refuse to sign in blue ink, believing it can be forged more easily. This was historically a thing, but with modern technology, the risk of forgery is not dependent on the ink color, but soley on the quality of the ink and paper used.
16Kk8 TIL that the longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years. Charles Osborne, from the USA, hiccuped continuously from 1922 to 1990, totaling over 430 million hiccups.