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TIL about George Spencer. He was executed by hanging for charges of sodomy after being convicted for an alleged sexual act with an animal. When a sow gave birth to a malformed piglet resembling Spencer, it was believed that this was irrefutable evidence that an act of bestiality had taken place

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4YDN TIL of the vestal virgins. A group of six women recruited at age six to tend the flame of the goddess vesta. Expected to serve for 30 yrs, if their viginity ever came into question they would be buried alive as punishment.
YJoB TIL that the first descent to the deepest point of the ocean (Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench - 10,918m) was carried out in a vessel designed and manned by a Captain Piccard.
loKEN TIL Contrary to everything Jurassic park taught me. Velociraptor was about the size of a modern domesticated Turkey, had feathers and would have had trouble taking down a poodle.
b6M97 TIL that medical residents in South Korea are often required to work up to 88 hours per week, with many reporting nearly 100 hours of work
0V1A TIL the Can-Can was originally considered scandalous as it became popular in the mid-19th century because many women of that time wore pantalettes, which had an open crotch, meaning that a high kick could be unintentionally revealing