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TIL ‘medieval’ chastity belts are a myth

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pQAb TIL of Norman Borlaug, “the man who saved a billion lives” by creating a new type of wheat that was highly productive and resistant to the weather - it saved Mexico, India and Pakistan from famine.
4bxR TIL that green olives are the same as black olives, but green olives are picked before ripening and black olives are picked while ripe
v1vw8 TIL: Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as ‘knave girls’ and females were ‘gay girls‘.
78ewZ TIL that the Post-It note was invented by a scientist at 3M who attempted to develop a super-strong adhesive but instead, accidentally created a "low-tack", reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive
nWXoY TIL that Ian Fleming got the name James Bond from an ornithologist, whose works he admired. Fleming chose the name Bond to sound blunt and everyday.