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1aKyX TIL Gremlins were invented by the RAF as mythical creatures who break airplanes, as way to explain random mechanical failures in reports; an "investigation" was even conducted to make sure Gremlins didn't have nazi sympathies
awZPJ TIL that during times when people were burnt at the stake, bags of gunpowder were sometimes tied around the victim's necks to shorten their suffering.
gr00b TIL Paschal Beverly Randolph, considered the first to introduce erotic alchemy to North America, promoted sex magic to improve health, love, women’s empowerment, and intelligent offspring. He referred God as both male and female and also believed bodies ran on electric currents, moved by magnetism.
1ao14 TIL Stephen Colbert was invited to be the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Apparently Republicans didn't realize the character from his show was satire. Featuring some nervous laughs from George W.
KO1bE TIL when Eminem showed the song "Kim", which describes in detail how he would kidnap and kill his ex-wife, to Kim Mathers he said to her before it started "I know this is a fucked-up song, but it shows how much I care about you. To even think about you this much. To even put you on a song like this"