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TIL Vibrators were invented by doctors to relief their fatigued hands from masturbating hysteria away from women

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Me1b TIL that the Basque language is so ancient that their word for axe, aizkora, literally means stone (held) high, or stone on top.
DQMgv TIL that there is a lichen-forming fungus native to Antarctica and Patagonia called Shackletonia, named in honor of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
e0Mj4 TIL When juicing a lime with a press juicer (the kind with a lever) you put the half lime into the cup of the juicer pulp side down/curved side up so that the juicer turns it inside out when you press.
QjB6 TIL in the mid 19th century, Chicago was in desperate need of a sewage system, but instead of digging down to install the sewers, they raised the entire city up 4 feet.
r9N1 TIL: first case of child abuse was brought to New York court system, by among others, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. There were no laws against abuse of children. so one of the arguments was that a child is technically an animal