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TIL Before the adoption of the word ‘penis’ into the English language, the penis was referred to as a 'yard’.

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8akRG TIL Francisco Goya, depressed and having survived 2 life threatening illnesses in his later years, decorated his house with 14 "black paintings" with bleak themes. The famous "Saturn Devouring His Son" was a mural in his dining room
xVPoo TIL it that King Charles II used to tease his mistress for sleeping late. It is reported that he offered her "all the land she could ride around before breakfast". The next morning he found her already sitting for breakfast after encircling an area currently known as Bestwood Park.
rN4Be TIL of the grave of Nancy Kerlin Barnett. Buried in the middle of a county road in Indiana, when her grandson heard there were plans of demolishing her grave to build the road, he camped out with a shotgun for weeks to protect it. They built the road around her.
5VKrr TIL numerical contractions are words abbreviated by the number of letters between the first and last letter such as i18n, a11y, p13n, k8s, etc.
1aY18 TIL About Blanche Monnier, a French Woman Who Was Locked in Her Room for 25 Years by Her Mother for Falling in Love With a Penniless Lawyer