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TIL that a married women keeping a male companion, maybe even for sexual favours, was a common practice in Medieval Italy. These men were called 'cicisbei'

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D1VDV TIL about Harald Hardrada. Exiled for 15 years after losing to Cnut The Great, he was a mercenary for the Kievan Rus', joined the Varangian Guard, became King of Norway and died at Stamford Bridge, ending the Viking Age.
Ykyx TIL homosexuality wasn’t explicitly banned in the old testament until re-translations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
j6yLj TIL the phasing out of CANDU fission reactors may deprive Fusion reactors of needed fuel before they can come online.
YolP TIL Bill Paxton is one of only two actors ever to be killed by an Alien, the Terminator, and a Predator
jNaWj TIL that in 2012, a survey in eastern Germany (regions formerly part of East Germany/GDR) was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God