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TIL Julie Andrews children repeatedly tried to get her to stop swearing

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aw5PZ TIL Dr. John Kellogg who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium starting in 1876 believed that most ailments resulted from unclean bowels full of toxins from undigested food. To that end, he administered enemas with a device capable of running fifteen gallons of water through a patient's bowel in seconds.
V9jB TIL A survey of the largest symphony orchestras in the US revealed 27% of musicians had used a common heart medication called a beta blocker to inhibit stage fright, and 70% of those who had used the drug had obtained it from a friend and not a medical doctor.
4eb5 TIL it took Louis XVI seven years to get Marie Antoinette pregnant because he had no idea how to have sex. His brother in law said “he introduces the member, stays there for about two minutes, withdraws without ejaculating”
Brdgx TIL That Abolitionists Used Maple Syrup in Their Cooking Because Molasses and Cane Sugar Were Both Slave Crops
xVVw7 The queen, who was deposed by a coup led by American sugar planters, died 100 years ago, but is by no means forgotten