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TIL that early Protestants objected to priestly celibacy on the grounds that it promoted masturbation. According to Martin Luther, “To say it crudely but honestly, if it doesn’t go into a woman, it goes into your shirt.”

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neBm7 TIL The most ancient archaeological record of a prehistoric massacre is in Sudan, with 14,000 years old skeletons, half of them with arrowheads embedded in, which indicates that they may have been the casualties of warfare. This likely occurred in the wake of a local ecological crisis.
KYW9a TIL the US flag we know today was created by a 17-year-old high school student, Bob Heft, from Ohio. In 1958, he designed a 50-star flag for a history project, earning a 'B' from his teacher. Then, Heft sent his design to the congessman Moeller that submitted it for a national redesign competition
e0kR4 TIL in 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman were found in a drum in the crawl space of a house in NY. She was identified as Reyna Marroquín, a woman who’d vanished in 1969. She’d had an affair with her employer. He killed himself before police could properly question him.
jG7n TIL Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame, losing only one out of about 300 matches and once challenged an entire crowd of onlookers after dispatching an opponent: “I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.”
GYOXQ TIL The Toba catastrophe theory that states human population was bottle-necked about 70K years ago due to a super massive volcanic eruption. Humanity may have dwindled to less than 10K individuals and many other animal species were similarly affected.