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TIL that the artist Mary Vincent (McGriff) survived a SA at age 15 where the perpetrator cut both her forearms off and threw her off a cliff. She survived and walked several miles before being rescued.

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noLr TIL that in the late 19th early 20th it was believed that masturbation caused cancer of the womb, urinary diseases, nocturnal emissions, impotence, epilepsy, insanity, and mental and physical debility
WXrX TIL voice actress Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” at age 13, and again at age 64 for “Kingdom Hearts”
l0QA TIL Adolf Hitler liked Rochdale Town Hall so much, he wanted to “ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.”
PYJ5w TIL that King Charles I, King of England, already taken prisoner, attempted to escape but was captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle in the Isle of Wight in 1647
Kwjw TIL that Kurt Vonnegut was once employed by Sports Illustrated and tasked with writing a story about a racehorse who jumped over a fence to try to run away. He wrote “The horse jumped over the fucking fence” and left the job.