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TIL it’s faster and more efficient to cook pasta in a frying pan.

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69JQ TIL that in Irish mythology, there is a story of a god divinely conceiving a child in a newlywed virgin’s belly. The women says “screw that,” aborts the child, then goes and gets pregnant with her husband’s child; the 100% human baby goes on to be a great hero.
XOMR TIL that the Ichthys symbol (The Jesus Fish) was a pagan symbol of fertility, which included representing the Vulva of Isis.
45n5 TIL spectators at Roman circuses divided themselves into four color-themed teams, the Reds, the Whites, the Greens, and the Blues, each of which attracted fanatical support. During one riot, 30000 Greens and Blues were massacred in a single day.
W7MxL TIL the Wright Brothers (airplane inventors) did not finish high school
78NEL TIL the annual Minneapolis Aquatennial Festival happens every year near the end of July, a timeframe chosen by sponsoring businesses in 1940 to deliberately conflict with Teamsters' annual celebration of union victory in the violent truckers strikes of 1934-35