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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

E1pOx TIL the Beatles could not write nor read musical notation
awMvJ TIL that Chinese farmer studied law for 16 Years to sue and defeat chemical corporation that polluted his land.
e0wL6 TIL that an engineer at NASA spent 15 years trying to become an astronaut and was rejected 14 times before finally being selected in 1998.
Eg6Yp TIL that Phillipines is the only country in the world where getting a divorce is illegal
9wkn6 TIL there is a Microwave Man