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TIL that hookworm infection “played a major role in the South’s lagging behind the rest of the country.”

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oBxXR TIL women in the early 1900’s would stab catcallers with their hatpins
6x6w TIL barcode readers actually scan the white parts and not the black parts
WQZo TIL: The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression: It is not a big workload that causes depression at work. An unfair boss and an unfair work environment are what really bring employees down (x-post from /r/science)
e0NP4 TIL After her husband was executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson set off on a quest of piracy and bloody justice. She would personally behead any aristocrats on board captures ships with her ax.
W8BY TIL syphilis was first recorded in Europe in 1494, with the hypothesis that it originated in the America’s and was brought to Italy by way of the Columbian Trade.