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TIL about Joseph of Cupertino, a Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian saint. He was prone to miraculous levitation. He was deemed disruptive by his superiors and church authorities, however, and eventually was confined to a small cell, forbidden from joining in any public gatherings.

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oRJjo TIL: Medieval doctors had many theories about STDs. The Prose Salernitan, teaches that, leper semen might leave the woman unharmed, but turns into a putrid vapor inside her which enters the next man. Others believed too much intercourse depletes you and too little causes you to swell up and die.
wWgM TIL Bond author Ian Fleming believed a popular theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. He believed this to such an extent that he promoted the theory in one of the Bond novels.
rNG6M Today I learned that the British fascist politician Arnold Spencer Leese (16 November 1878 – 18 January 1956) was initially prominent as a veterinary expert on camels.
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