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TIL That www.Whitehouse.com was a porn website until 2004.

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P1W5n TIL for the most part, English witches were hanged while French ones were burned. This posed a riddle for the Channel island of Guernsey when three witches turned up there in 1617. Ultimately, they were hanged according to British law, then burned according to French 🤯
PYrZO TIL in the 1920s Helene Adelaide Shelby patented a device to help obtain criminal confessions. The suspect was confronted by a human skeleton with glowing red eyes and the interrogator would talk through the skeleton via megaphone. A camera in the skull would record the confessions.
d919 TIL Blockbuster still has 50 franchise owned stores open in North America
JYLxm TIL The Supremes are the most successful American group on the US Billboard Hot 100 with 12 number-one peaks holding the record since 1970. The closest group after them is Hall & Oates with 6.
NjWP TIL blockbusters last slogan was “That’s all folks!”