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TIL that child pornography was legal in Denmark between 1969-1979

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XKr TIL that Prince is a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and occasionally knocks on people’s doors to discuss his faith.
QNaEM TIL: Vaginal Steaming is used as an alternative health treatment in Africa and Central America. It involves smoking the vag by sitting above fire or hot coals. Side effects include 2nd degree burns, allergic reactions, and infection. There is no evidence it works. Gwyneth Paltrow reviewed it.
v1eO8 TIL Empress Irene of the Byzantine Empire, among other things, became empress by winning a beauty contest, after her husband died became the first empress to rule in her own right in Byzantine History, and blinded her own son in order to retain power.
9wJkQ TIL Jason Derulo’s stage name is a pronunciation respelling of his surname, Desrouleaux
Vjlk TIL a 15 year old Roman Emperor named Heliogabalus, was a notorious prankster. He would get his party guests black out drunk and then dump them into a bedroom full of toothless leopards, lions and bears. He also created the 1st known ‘whoopee cushions’ using inflated animal bladders.