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TIL: A French textbook publisher apologized after making textbooks saying the CIA was responsible for 9/11.

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VMGV0 TIL that Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was so obsessed with his former lover Alma Mahler, widow of composer Gustav, that in 1918 he commissioned a life-sized fetish doll that he wished to 'embrace'. He was dissatisfied with the doll but did several paintings of it. Eventually, he beheaded it.
J1lXk TIL Buzz Lightyear was originally named Lunar Larry
1dYO TIL, Black Panther’s chapter leader, Fred Hampton had a personal bodyguard/Director of Security who was actually an FBI informant. When no illegal activities were reported, the informant under FBI orders, instigated party rifts and incited armed clashes.
oRJjo TIL: Medieval doctors had many theories about STDs. The Prose Salernitan, teaches that, leper semen might leave the woman unharmed, but turns into a putrid vapor inside her which enters the next man. Others believed too much intercourse depletes you and too little causes you to swell up and die.
dbmE TIL the longest prison sentence was 141,078 years, given to a Thai woman who defrauded over 16,000 people out of over $200m. She served 8 years.