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TIL “obsession” used to refer to being controlled by demons outside your body (whereas possession was being controlled by demons inside the body)

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a8Lrb TIL IBM holds the record for most annual US patents generated by a business for 29 consecutive years
awjX9 TIL that lions are a species that mate very often through the course of four days, resulting in an average of 50 copulations per day.
9Y0gQ Today I learned The Tanukis popularized by Super Mario Brothers 3. In Japan "have legendarily been known to use their testicles as makeshift raincoats, as weapons, and as drums."
XD18 TIL that the YMCA threatened to sue the Village People for their song YMCA until they noticed their membership significantly increased in the wake of the song’s popularity
Rr5j TIL A suicidal painter was saved from death 3 times by the same “mysterious” monk. Nobody knew who the monk was; the painter didn’t even know the monk’s name.