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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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W7Q0Y TIL: that a town called Remote in the US state of Oregon is used as a placeholder for remote jobs in online job boards
woXKM TIL in 1981 Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moved into the crime ridden Cabrini–Green public housing project in an attempt to improve its reputation. Despite having bodyguards she left just a few weeks later, furthering the public perception of Cabrini–Green as the "worst of the worst" in the city.
6E5mW TIL Ed O'Neil (Married With Children) is a Brazilian Jiu-JItsu Black Belt
kWN7 TIL Sexual abuse by nuns is just as prevalent as priests. Sexual abuse by nuns has gone largely unaddressed and unreported in part because of cultural biases about gender roles and sex. It seems to receive less publicity and scrutiny than abuse committed by priests
dDylK TIL in 2017, NASA successfully communicated commands 13 billion miles away to Voyager 1 and got it to fire up its thrusters which were not in use since 37 years