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TIL shoes were not left or right specific until 1800.

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oB6pE TIL a child molester voluntarily castrated himself to get rid of his urges and be freed from prison
NXegM TIL that Ibrahim the Mad, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was obsessed with large ladies and ordered his officers to search far and wide for the fattest women in the land to add to his harem
ADLmd TIL the Wii U actually didn't have that bad a launch, despite overall sales figures. In fact, on Dec. 31st, 2012, Nintendo announced that it had sold 3.06 million units worldwide with 11.69 million software units sold.
4kRRR TIL that on July 17, 1981, two overhead walkways loaded with people collapsed onto a tea dance in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, killing 114 and injuring 216.
ZmmB TIL that the ampersand (&) was once the last letter of the alphabet. In latin the & was called “per se”. When reciting the alphabet people would say, “X, Y, Z and per se”. That last bit (“and per se”) eventually ran together to create the word, “ampersand”