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TIL that in ancient Egypt, licorice was used as medicine
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TIL about Sounding, the act of inserting a metal rod into your urethra. Sounding tubes are meant to be used medically, but some people figured out that they experience sexual pleasure from the act.
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TIL tarot decks were originally used to play various card games similar to bridge, and are still used this way in parts of Europe. They did not become widely associated with the occult until more than 300 years after they were invented.
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TIL the disco ball was patented over a hundred years ago -- there's even one in a flashback scene in the film Casablanca (which is from 1942)
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TIL As of May 2018, the smell of Play-Doh is trademarked. It is described as “a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.”
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TIL: Chipotle peppers are simply smoked jalapeños; it takes 10 lbs of jalapeños to create 1 lb of chipotle