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TIL that, until 1791, the Bethlem Royal Hospital, or Bedlam, welcomed paying visitors who watched the patients and sometimes taunted them with sticks or otherwise abused them

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XEopk TIL Robin Hood was called to be removed from Indiana textbooks for being communist
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