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TIL the act of women flashing their genitals has been believed to scare off demons as far back as the ancient Greeks.

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x6x45 TIL that in August of 1849, Pope Pius IX went aboard the USS Constitution while it was in port at the Italian city of Gaeta. Because U.S Navy ships posses extraterritoriality, this was technically the first papal visit to U.S soil, 116 years before Pope Paul VI would visit New York City in 1965.
laW7 TIL that in the 1930’s,the United States banned women from showing their bellybuttons in Hollywood films. When the ban was finally lifted, Marilyn Monroe was quoted as saying, “I guess the censors are willing to recognize that everybody has a navel.”
Wo19 TIL in 2006 a conference was convened to determine which exact direction Muslim astronauts should face when praying in space. The issue remains unresolved.
6EAJ8 TIL when the Hollywood sign was changed to ‘Hollyweed’ in 1976, the art student responsible was given an A
loKYB TIL Before he died in 1998, Chinese President Yang Shangkun told his army doctor that the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4 had been the most serious mistake committed by the Communist Party in its history