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TIL ‘medieval’ chastity belts are a myth

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rN9kM TIL people can get leprosy from armadillos.
d1yQ TIL that the refrain “when one door closes, another opens" is actually an Alexander Graham Bell quote which he followed by saying “but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
neb9o TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American in the 19th-Century
XEGj TIL that 86 year old blues artist B.B. King still plays over 100 shows a year.
rRLJ1 TIL about Margaret Schilling a mental patient who went missing in December 1978. Jan '79 local news reporting her escaped. 5 weeks later, worker finds her body locked alone in a construction area. Her decomp left a stain in the marble of her death pose that endures to today.