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TIL that Oxford Is older than the Aztec Empire.

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yQ7Pa TIL of Freud's patient diagnosed with hysteria based on menstrual symptoms. A surgeon friend claimed he could cure it with nose surgery. Surgery botched, left her hemorrhaging and disfigured. Freud claimed her hemorrhage is "wish-bleeding" caused by a hysterical longing for the affection of others.
GYePj TIL Nioh was originally based on an unfinished Akira Kurosawa script
R5147 TIL The Vatican operates a telescopic observatory in Arizona
e8pg TIL that there was a 12 year ban on athletes with intellectual disabilities competing in the Paralympic Games because of the Spanish Basketball Team cheating in the 2000 Games by having 10 members pretend they had a disability.
1KW TIL: The Giant Hogweed is a phototoxic, noxious weed that can cause 2nd degree burns, blisters, scarring and sometimes blindness.