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TIL in Iceland, during the Medieval Witch trials, majority of the executions were directed at men, with the last execution happening in 1683.

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BrJlb TIL Alexander Scourby recorded the first audio book version of the King James Bible. The American Bible Society distributed the recordings as The Talking Bible, a set of 169 LP records with a running time of 84.5 hours. Scourby recorded 422 books and considered Talking Books his most important work.
0pjL TIL That a Man Will Have On Average 3 Erections Whilst Sleeping Each Night
YDjx TIL Microsoft once threatened to sue a high school student named Mike Rowe for creating a website called MikeRoweSoft.com
Zev TIL there’s a floating island the size of a football field in Springfield, Massachusetts that destroys fences and sheds as it occasionally moves around.
D1y0D Today I learned that In South Korea, some stores package their bananas together in various ripeness stages so you can eat them over several days without them going brown. - They call them "one-a-day" bananas.