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TIL Steven Tyler has a fundraiser set up for abused girls despite having abused a 14 year old girl himself.

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1akbV TIL that the Danube begins in the Black Forest and ends in the Black Sea.
Lk4jQ TIL of Jean de Breiteuil, a late 60's UCLA student and heroin dealer to major musicians of the day. In addition to being a main supplier to a young Keith Richards, he was with Janis Joplin a few days before her death in Los Angeles, and Jim Morrison died in Breituil's bathtub in Paris in 1971.
g5R7 TIL Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as 'knave girls’ and females were 'gay girls’. Equally, a boy could be called a 'knave child’ and a girl a 'maiden child’.
9YXr7 TIL that young people are having sex less but rates of masturbation are skyrocketing
9YPLm TIL that in the Rosenstrasse protests in 1943 during the middle of WWII, thousands of non-Jewish German women protested the deportation of their Jewish husbands to the concentration camps. The protests were successful, but it was the only mass protest in Nazi Germany against the deportation of Jews.