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TIL During the Middle Ages the Church tolerated prostitution because it helped to prevent rape, sodomy, and masturbation, which it saw as worse

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NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”
p8LXe TIL that in 2021, journalist Alan C. Logan published an in-depth investigation into Frank Abagnale's story and found that most of them were fabrications.
696wl TIL a 12-year-old boy, at an art exhibit in Taipei, accidentally tore a fist-sized hole into a 17th century painting, worth $1.5 million, when he stumbled and put his hand out to balance himself. However, the artwork was insured, so the boy's family were not asked to pay for the restoration costs.
wJro TIL: Sitting over 11 hours a day results in a 40% higher chance of dying from any cause.
0Zkj TIL that in 1975, the Food and Drug Administration ruled that Pringles cannot legally call themselves “Potato chips” because they’re not made from sliced potatoes. Also, in the UK, the company tried to argue that Pringles weren’t chips (“crisps” in the UK) because chips are subject to a 17.5% VAT