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TIL The Jewish mafia was nicknamed the Kosher Nostra

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JYbKv TIL about the Kinsey Scale. Created by Alfred Kinsey in 1948. Kinsey thought that sexuality was fluid and could change over time. He created a scale 7 point scale with 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. The seventh point X is for asexuals.
p8p58 TIL that the Chimney Sweepers Act of 1788 was a British Act of Parliament passed to stop child labor, as boys as young as four were being used as chimney sweeps. The Act raised the minimum age to eight years old.
Wp0L TIL Sony after the 2012 security breaches changed PSN user agreement to require users to agree not to sue Sony over any future security breach.
ZplYG TIL that Toploader, best known for their cover of King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight", were named after a joint-rolling technique.
BPmb TIL that during the Civil War, the Union ignited 8,000 lbs of gunpowder, destroying a mine under the Confederate encampment, then proceeded to charge into the crater from the explosion, got stuck in said crater, and were brutally massacred due to Confederate high ground.