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TIL Medieval chastity belts are a myth. A great majority of examples now existing were made in the 18th and 19th centuries as jokes.

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gRGX TIL that school administrators let 16-year old Bill Gates write the computer code to schedule their students in classes. He modified the code so he was placed with “a disproportionate number of interesting girls”.
V044 TIL Timothy Cole was arrested and convicted of rape in 1985 and sentenced to 25 years, dying in prison in 1999. After the statute of limitations on the crime had run out, the real rapist confessed and DNA testing proved Cole innocence. He was officially pardoned in 2009.
rNk0M TIL the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975, and the song was recorded one month later
NLEe TIL that in 1916 a miscalculation of Montana’s population led to 40,000 men being drafted into the 1st World War…10% of the state’s population.
JYrYk TIL that in 1997 an Air Force pilot stole a fully loaded A-10 Thunderbolt II and apparently committed suicide by crashing it into a Colorado mountain. The ordinance was not with the aircraft when it was found and has never been recovered.