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TIL There Used to be an Annual College Football All-Stars vs NFL Game from 1934-1979

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y8p TIL that in medieval England, pregnancy was considered impossible without orgasm. Therefore, if a woman was raped and didn’t conceive, there was no evidence, but if she did conceive, it was assumed she enjoyed it. Either way, the rapist would not be convicted.
9g5G TIL that the inventor of the first ever video game also helped to invent the first nuclear bomb.
aw6eA TIL in the 1940s, AT&T sued Harry Tuttle for inventing the Hush-A-Phone—a device that silenced phones from eavesdroppers. AT&T argued the “device hadn’t been installed by their company” and the FCC voted in AT&T’s favor, but Tuttle continued to fight the case in open court and eventually won.
xGNk TIL Since being discovered by the timber industry in the 1850s, 96% of the 2,000,000 acres of old-growth Coast Redwood trees in California have been logged.
Bx0W TIL there is an island the size of Manhattan in the Bay of Bengal whose inhabitants have had almost no contact with the outside world. It may be the last such place on earth.