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TIL that as many as 20% of women in 18th century London worked as prostitutes

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yvYl TIL that a man’s investments were prevented from growing to their full extent out of fear that they would exceed the value of the world.
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MEb0 TIL that Tobe Hooper came up with the idea of a chainsaw as the murder weapon for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when he was at a hardware store and was wondering how he could speed his way through the crowd.
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