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TIL Nintendo Used To Run Love Hotels, Where It’s Ex-CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi Was One Of It’s Most Reliable Customers

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Rdpl TIL scientists once recruited theater students to drunkenly stumble into bars, to test whether bartenders over-serve patrons. They found that bartenders were more likely to over-serve drunk women than men.
KYX4R TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft
mxo0M TIL Theodore Roosevelt's 1880 undergraduate thesis at Harvard was titled: "The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law" which argued for women's rights, including property ownership, and argued that women ought to keep their birth names upon marrying.
DQgwr TIL that Silly String was Originally Designed to be an Instant Spray-On Cast for Broken Bones
MeZKb TIL: The Icelandic Phallological Museum holds the worlds largest display of penises and penile parts, including the tip of a Blue Whale penis weighing 150lbs, dubbed “a real Moby Dick”.