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TIL Legendary Basketball Superstar Wilt Chamberlain claimed to had sex with over 20,000 women

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woVeo TIL that the term 'making love' meant flirtation or verbal protestation of love and devotion since its inception in the 1590s up to the early 1900s
oROkR Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
8e8Z8 TIL that the word "fascinate" derives from the ancient Roman practice of using a representation of the divine penis (a fascinare) to perform magic.
RZjQ TIL in 2013 300 teenagers broke into a home while the owner was away, caused $20,000 in damages, and some of the parents threatened to sue the owner for outing them on Twitter
RKQl TIL that a German POW escaped his American prison camp near the end of WWII, and lived in the US for 40 years under a fake name, before finally admitting the fraud on the Today Show. His name was Georg Gärtner.