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TIL Lesbianism is technically allowed under Judaism since, unlike male homosexuality, no punishment for it or acknowledgment of it is made in holy scriptures presumably because it was thought that women could not possibly form sexual attractions

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RB51 TIL Texas abolished “Last Meal” before execution because a prisoner, Lawrence Russell Brewer, requested a 5 course meal and ate nothing of it because he “wasn’t hungry after all”
b6Yyj TIL that the iconic death's-head hawkmoth from The Silence of the Lambs couldn't be used in filming because it was too cold, so they glued skull decals on tobacco horn worm moths, instead.
epKwJ TIL ancient Aztecs invented rubber-soled shoes.
awBZN TIL about Wholphins, a rare cross between a whale and a dolphin. First recorded in 1981 in captivity, but also found in the wild.
GAKy1 TIL that Stephen King decided on the location for the Shining, by opening an atlas and randomly pointing at a location, which happened to be Boulder, Colorado.