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TIL we had x rays before we had antibiotics! (1880s & 1930s)

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jNLXM TIL about the story when Ayrton Senna crashed because the wall moved
09Dv TIL That Wombats poop cubed shape bricks
1a6kr TIL In the 17th-century Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Zevi proclaimed himself the true Jewish Messiah with the doctrine of redemption through committing sin, Vast numbers of Jews in the Jewish diaspora accepted his claims. At the height of movement Sabbatai Zevi had 1 million Jews following him.
VB4Qp TIL that Elizabeth I was likely molested by her stepfather Thomas Seymour. He would forcefully tickle her, slap her butt, and at one point cut her dress ‘into a hundred pieces’. This only ended when Thomas and Elizabeth where caught alone in embrace, resulting in Elizabeth being sent away
6Eo8l TIL that the first marriage of Gioffre Borgia took place when he was just 12, and was a political marriage to the 16 year old Sancha of Aragon