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TIL that women in Babylon were required to have done prostitution before they could marry!

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KY96J TIL The giant balloons in the Macy’s parade were originally allowed to float away, and those who found them got a gift certificate from Macy’s.
x0OD TIL MTV fired Russell Brand several days after coming to work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after the 11 September 2001 attacks and bringing his drug dealer to the MTV studios
1JmO TIL that cats have scent glands in their paws. When they kneed their paws into us they are marking their territory.
4kPYa TIL that the director of the infamous Unit 731, Shirō Ishii, converted to Catholicism shortly before his death and took the name Joseph, according to his daughter.