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TIL Jack Parsons, a pioneer rocket engineer and inventor of the rocket engines later used in the apollo program was also a passionate occultist. One of his rituals, aimed to summon a sex goddess involved Parsons jerking off to magical tablets while listening to a violin concerto

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neV7 TIL on September 6, 1949, a mentally disturbed WWII vet killed 13 of his neighbors and injured 3 more in what is considered the first single-episode mass murder in US history. When he died in 2009, his last words were “I’d have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.”
jNE8X TIL that Levi's doesn't know the significance of most of their historical trademarks, including their three-digit model numbers (e.g. 501) or the arc design stitched on their back pockets. This is because all of their records were lost with their headquarters in the 1906 San Francisco fire.
xVX9b TIL that Japanese people traditionally eat KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago. KFC is so popular that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance.
awmAA TIL one man named his baby SaTiva after the marijuana strain. When he had his second daughter in 2020, he named her Indica after another strain.
awVDo TIL that an Arizona Senator candidate got away with murdering his Mom & Sister. Claims it was self defense, yet the bodies of his mom and sister were found in their rooms to have died of being shot in there sleep. He claims he killed them in his room after his mother shot at him.