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TIL treadmills were used in Victorian times as punishments in prison

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plNA TIL that “cicisbeo” is the male equivalent to a “mistress!”
Z8X8G TIL about Scheele’s Green, a popular pigment in the 1800s made with deadly arsenic. One famous death was of a flowermaker, who dusted the pigment onto fake foliage. “She vomited green waters; the whites of her eyes had turned green, and she told her doctor that ‘everything she looked at was green.’”
8aJXX TIL that "Corolla" means "little crown" in Latin, and "innermost ring of flower petals" in English
gM6M7 TIL Jimmy Stewart, already a famous movie star, enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general
yQb6v TIL During the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, Leonard Jerome, famous wall street speculator and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill, defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling Gun.