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TIL gossiping women or those who were accused of witchcraft were made to wear an iron muzzle in medival England.

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Dmrp TIL: Sperm from fire ant populations is capable of eliminating DNA from female ovum, essentially producing a clone of the male.
R7naQ TIL the Bone Wars was a spectacularly dirty, competitive period of fossil hunting, marked by a bitter, destructive rivalry between 2 collectors who used nefarious means to outdo each other incl. spying, bribery & theft. Both were financially & socially ruined by their attempts to disgrace the other.
deV7 TIL the word Dildo comes from a Latin word meaning to “open wide”
WB8A TIL: Mexico is one of the few countries which has technical capabilities to manufacture nuclear weapons.However it has renounced them and pledged to only use its nuclear technology for peaceful purposes following the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1968.
DmEV TIL that 76% of all known serial killers in the 20th century were from the United States.