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TIL the Order of Assassins in Assassin’s Creed were based on a real group from sect called the Nizari Ismailis in 11th century. And apparently they still exist today!

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eYeg TIL that Italy’s economy is so weak that the “Latin lover” is on the decline. “The traditional kept mistress, secretly hidden away in her fully paid-up flat, and lavished with furs and jewels has been consigned to history”. Divorces are down, too, because men can’t afford to leave their wives.
5oNB TIL there was a custom in ancient Babylon compelling all women at least once in their lives to go to the temple of Aphrodite and have sex with a stranger.
5YbBB TIL that Oxford University is so old that they don’t even know when exactly it was founded and that the earliest evidence of teaching there goes back to 1096.
xVrng TIL that during the Age of Exploration (1500-1800) at least 2 million sailors died from scurvy.
4k085 TIL, immediately after WWII, the U.S Government took 1,600 Nazi scientists back to the U.S. This secret operation was called “Operation Paperclip”. Many of these ex-Nazis scientists went to work for NASA. The most famous ex-Nazi scientist was Wernher von Braun.