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TIL Kellogg’s Corn flakes were part of a plan to reduce masturbation and sexual energy, and invented by a sanitarium director

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KkbG TIL a man was convicted and hanged in 1673 using the testimony of ghosts that appeared in dreams to witnesses.
n9nG TIL that Israel and India are the only two countries on earth who have banned cosmetics testing on animals
1B8V TIL Allen Swift received a 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly Phantom I new and maintained it meticulously before dying in 2005 as the oldest living person to own a car from new.
xVBv1 TIL of the Battle of Cable Street, with saw protesters confront Met police and Blackshirts from the BUF at a fascist march in 1936. A commemorative plaque about the incident reads "They Shall Not Pass".
ayPZ TIL there was a Women’s Strike of 1975 in Iceland. 90% of women stopped working, cooking, and caring for children, and the entire country ground to a halt.