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TIL of a "breast ironing", a practise where a female relative beats a pubescent girl's breasts with hard, heated objects, in an attempt to stop them from growing.

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QJeWd TIL there is an alternative line of who should be the real Monarch of UK..
newKb TIL that unlike knives and spoons which have been around since antiquity, forks only appeared in the Middle Ages. They did not see common use for centuries, with records of British sailors ars recently as 1897 refusing to use forks as they considered them effeminate and unmanly.
oEWr TIL the last Attorney General to break with POTUS was Elliot Richardson, who resigned after Nixon ordered him to fire the Special Prosecutor of the Watergate scandal
nekpB TIL male bees ejaculate with such force that it rips apart their organs, killing them instantly.
JYjl4 TIL The amusement park 6 flags is named so because it originated in Texas, which has had 6 flags fly over it (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States of America, and the United States)