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TIL, Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas

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xpo5 TIL that when the invading Prussians banned Danish people from flying their flags, they spent years breeding the red-and-white striped “Danish Protest Pig” as the ultimate passive-aggressive display. It is still extant today, though there are only 140 examples and it is officially a rare breed.
gB8 TIL that Abraham De Moivre, a French mathematician, successfully predicted the date of his own death in 1754
dDZrK TIL There is a tree that owns itself...
DQ1Vj TIL that five months before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, George Harrison became the first Beatle to step foot in America when he visited his older sister who was living in Southern Illinois.
VBgg4 TIL while men were burned at the stake it was often reserved for women as a way of modestly putting them to death without exposing their bodies