› added 7 years ago

558

TIL in the Middle Ages, Catholic women were prohibited from having sex on Sundays, Wednesdays, or Fridays, on feast days, while fasting for Lent or Advent or while "impure" (menstruation, pregnancy, 40 days after giving birth & while nursing). Everything but missionary position was considered sodomy

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VBVM4 TIL that BBC Breakfast's resident doctor Nighat Arif has advocated for more women to be given vibrators for medical reasons, on the grounds that orgasms help pelvic floor muscles, lower blood pressure, and release endorphins which help relieve pain.
yQb5l TIL the latitude/longitude coordinates of 0°N 0°E point to a buoy off the coast of Africa jokingly called "Null Island"
WkRnY TIL Kazuo Nagano, a fraudulent businessman, was assassinated in front of at least 30 press members. The two assassins announced their intentions beforehand and then slashed Nagano with Bayonets multiple times. The whole ordeal was broadcasted multiple times including much of the gore.
4X48N TIL that a 2015 finders keepers law allows private companies to own anything they find in the outer space and that startups are already rushing to mine asteroids to take advantage of that law
E1MNP TIL that Taylor Swift composed her song "Enchanted" after a meeting with Adam Young (Owl City) which, in return, presented a cover dedicated to her of the same song on Valentine's Day. Despite the interviews they gave at the time and the romantic text of the songs, the two never officially dated.