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TIL the Ancient Greek author Diodorus Siculus wrote that the people of Spain's Balearic Islands loved to be naked & loved women. The Greeks called the islands Gymnesiae meaning naked (γυμνοί) & legend states the the inhabitants would give 3 or 4 men as ransom for 1 woman.

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