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b9eJQ TIL during the middle ages there was a legal category called "enbrotherment" that allowed two men to share living quarters, pool their resources, and effectively live as a married couple. The couple shared "one bread, one wine, one purse."
xZM1 TIL The US Government spent 20 years and $20m on an experimental project to test and train telepaths for military use
QojX TIL Dustin Hoffman’s infamous “I’m walkin’ here” line in Midnight Cowboy was unscripted, he reacted in character to almost being hit by a cab.
OG4xa TIL how the bugatti family buried their most precious car during WWII to keep it hidden from the invading germans, never to be found again!
E1moo TIL: During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Naval Command prioritized destroying Battleships over Carriers. The operational commander, Minoru Genda, defied those orders and assigned more planes per Carrier than planes per Battleship, in spite of carriers being lightly armored and easier to sink