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TIL: Saad Abe was a famous Geisha, who after 2+ hours of intimacy and erotic choking, killed her lover, cut off his penis and balls and began carrying them around until her arrest and practiced necrophilia as she stated she loved him. The judge in the case admitted to being aroused by the story.

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V9Ym TIL the first modern attempt at restricting smoking was imposed by the then German government in every university, post office, military hospital, and Nazi Party office, under the auspices of Karl Astel’s Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research, created in 1941 under orders from Adolf Hitler.
oR8eW Today I learned that the United States not only had denominations of $500, $1000, $5,000, and $10,000, which are still legal for people to own, but for a very brief period they also had a $100,000 bill that was only ever used by banks and is considered illegal for private citizens to own.
vP6v4 TIL that IKEA got its name as an acronym for its founder Ingvar Kamprad, of the farm Elmtaryd, near the village Agunnaryd.
rNVKM TIL: Egyptian burial sites also have "meat mummies" which is mummified meat so the rulers have something to eat along with their mummified servants. In Ancient Rome, funeral banquets were held in front of the tomb and the mourners would pour alcohol into the corpse's mouth.
VBpJm TIL Subbuteo was named after the "falco subbeteo" bird because its creator wasn't granted a trademark for its original name Hobby. The "falco subbuteo" is the Latin name for the "Eurasian hobby" bird.