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TIL: Butt plugs used to be sold as a ‘miracle cure’ for headaches and acne

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vJMB TIL that in 1968 an American vessel was captured by North Korea. The crew was abused, and to show the world, they used puns (“We paean the DPRK [North Korea]. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung”) and gave the middle finger in propaganda photographs, claiming it was a “Hawaiian good luck sign”.
5VM4D TIL a classmate of Anne Frank, Theo Coster (Morris Simon, 1928-2019), founded with his wife Ora (1931-2021) a game design company which invented popular games such as Guess Who?, Zingo! and the breast-inspired Pop-It fidget toy. Their headstones were made to resemble the Guess Who? flip-up frames.
EgOYw TIL The last ship sunk by an Iceberg with loss of life was the MS Hans Hedtoft in 1959 during the return leg of her maiden voyage. She sank in 4 hours with the loss of all 95 people aboard.
nW4A9 TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete
LkrWp TIL Steve Jobs hated pornography and didn't want iphones to be used for porn. He said “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone.”