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TIL Richard Simmons hasn't been seen in public since 2014 and there are a lot of rumors about why.

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LQrd9 TIL: King Edward VII commissioned a custom "chair" that let him "pleasure" multiple women simultaneously. Three were made, with one "original" and the two others being replicas, one of which is housed in a museum for sex devices.
grVP7 TIL that California’s 1967 Magic Mountain Music Festival was favourably reviewed for safety in press accounts, as fight or disturbances were not an issue, and at the end of the day, trash was placed in or next to the garbage cans provided. The immense crowd left Mount Tamalpais as they had found it.
LQA00 TIL Neapolitan ice cream was invented in Prussia, not Italy
WkgV4 TIL an alternative interpretation of the myth of Narcissus is that he sat gazing into the spring to console himself for the death of his beloved twin sister, his exact counterpart, by recalling her features in the reflection.
emv4 TIL that the most common way we board airplanes, the block method, is actually the least efficient way.