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TIL that the inverted cross mostly associated with Satanic and anti-Christian imagery is actually the symbol of Saint Peter's martyrdom, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus.

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wgJM TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.
a8YOA TIL of RAS syndrome, the act of appending a word to the end of an abbreviated term that already exists at the tail of it. e.g. ATM (automated teller machine) machine, PIN (personal identification number) number and amusingly, RAS (redundant acronym syndrome) syndrome
r6Jw TIL Alcatraz was the only federal prison at the time to offer hot-water showers for its inmates. The prison staff reasoned that prisoners acclimated to hot water would not be able to withstand the freezing waters of the San Francisco bay during an escape attempt.
Oodog TIL Ore-Ida invented tater tots to make use of the leftover potato shavings from their French fries production.
PYy5Z TIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000 year sentence