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TIL: French schoolchildren use a 3D-printed clitoris to learn about female pleasure during sexual education

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78g4p TIL that, until 1564, in France, the year began either at Christmas, on March 25, on March 1 or even at Easter

Yp9PW TIL In the third century the Roman Empire was split into several regions with several leaders. One of those leaders Constantine had ambitions to retake the Roman Empire. He lacked an army large enough to do so. He decided if he converted to Christianity the Christians would fight for him. He won.

BYK TIL that Michael Bay got his start in the film industry by interning with George Lucas when he was fifteen, filing the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark. Impressed by the experience, he decided to become a director.

x01D TIL there’s a Scottish in-joke about the ‘wild haggis’. When polled, one third of US visitors to Scotland said they believed it was a real creature.

E1rWX TIL On a trip to Nepal, Apollo astronaut Stu Roosa met Nepalese who believe the spirits of their dead reside on the Moon. Roosa could not understand why a few of the local citizens treated him like a god, nor why they were distressed when he told them he saw no one else on the Moon