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TIL Saint Nick is the patron saint of prostitutes

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kOP0W TIL Albrecht II of Bayreuth, a famously cruel ruler once picked a random man from a crowd and ordered him to perform an execution. Due to the severe social stigma attached to executioners he couldn't return to his job as a woodcutter,he was condemned to carry on as an executioner and so was his son
7Opx TIL An abandoned lifeboat was found on the world’s most remote island in 1964. Its origin is still a mystery.
0dag1 TIL of "The Perfumed Garden", a 15th century arabic sex manual. On top of sex advice and hygiene tips for men and women, it also lists 30 different names for the penis and 40 names for the vulva
1aA78 TIL that the Soviet AA-2 Atoll missile was reverse engineered from a US AIM-9 Sidewinder after it became lodged in a Chinese MiG-17 without exploding. The lead Soviet engineer at Vympel said, the missile was a "university offering a course in missile construction technology."
jNrj TIL some Micronesians made mock airstrips, radios, etc., and imitated military drills post WWII as religious ceremony so airplanes would deliver manufactured goods.