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TIL Roman Catholics in Bavaria founded a secret society in 1740 called the Order of the Pug. New members had to wear dog collars and scratch at the door to get in.

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6EpKw TIL: Top 40 singer and outspoken conservative, Anita Bryant, was in the middle of a press conference on “doing away with homosexuals” when a man hit her in the face with a banana cream pie on live TV. Bryant’s response, “Well, at least it was a fruit pie.”
lKYV TIL that in the 1950s hundreds of babies were loaned from orphanages to colleges like Cornell so that students could practice on a real newborn.
6ADY TIL that at it’s height the First Persian Empire contained about 44% of the world’s population (about 50 million people), making it the largest empire in history by population percentage
7rMLL TIL Keurig K-Cups are non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, and generate a ton of plastic waste. They are so environmentally unfriendly that its own inventor has said: “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
nMOo TIL that there is no scientific basis for the Kübler-Ross “DABDA” model, aka the 5 stages of grief. The author herself insisted the stages didn’t all happen and not in any order. The model was embraced in pop culture because humans are naturally predisposed to explanations that tell a simple story.