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TIL the oldest occurrence of the word "fuck" in English is from a 1310 record by the court in Chester on outlawing a Roger Fuckbythenavel

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wdy1 TIL Medieval Catholic doctrine held that cross-dressing should be evaluated based on context and that necessity would be a permissible reason for cross-dressing. (which made Joan d'Arc innocent)
P1Z0w TIL that during WWII, Britain created explosive-filled rat carcasses to sabotage German boilers, but the plan was intercepted.
BrxLx TIL that because Iceland is a remote country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, Icelanders have a special dating app that warns them if a potential partner is too closely related
J078 TIL that before the invention of the internal combustion engine, gasoline was considered a useless byproduct of the oil refining process used to make kerosene.
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