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4Xj7R TIL Martin Luther enrolled at the University of Erfurt at age 17 to study law which he described as a "beerhouse and whorehouse". He gave up law for philosophy but eventually left university altogether, sold his books, & became a monk.
r5nw TIL: NSFW - The last public execution in France by beheading (Eugen Weidmann) is on YouTube.
neEL7 TIL that in 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.
0d7gp TIL Beagles are the dog breed most often used in animal testing, due to their size and passive nature.
rN1E4 TIL sperm oil(whales) was used in automotive transmissions until the 1970s. When they stopped using it, transmission failures rose significantly.