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TIL First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’

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OoNO1 TIL a mom woke up after a 27 year coma, and her first word was her son’s name
pbRG TIL Texas banned last meal after inmate ordered two chicken-fried steaks, a triple-bacon cheeseburger, cheese omelette, three fajitas, pizza, barbecued meat with white bread, fried okra with ketchup, ice cream, peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts, three root beers and didn’t eat any of it.
6EB67 TIL a janitor singing Welcome to the Jungle on the schools loudspeaker after hours made a teacher fear for her life
d8nBQ TIL that the reason Sherlock Holmes adaptations portray him as cold and unemotional is because later stories where he has empathy and warmth are owned by the Conan Doyle Estate. They will sue if a depiction of Holmes uses character traits that they own the rights to.
b6DgE TIL of Hassan Diab who was convicted of bombing a Paris Synagogue which killed four people and is currently teaching a class called "Social Justice in Action" at Carleton University in Canada