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TIL there is no evidence that Victorian doctors gave women orgasms to cure hysteria or that they invented the vibrator to help with this task

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m1mbE TIL In English law priests used to be allowed to commit one murder and face no further consequences beyond having a thumb branded. These benefits of the clergy would be reduced in 1512 and heavily altered by the end of the 1500s.
Y5lG TIL Around 85% people breathe through one nostrils at a time which changes every few hours. It affects the body’s glucose and oxygen levels and the activity of the brain hemisphere. Also explains why one nose is more stuffed up when having a cold.
v4Qr TIL: Montpelier, Vermont. Is the only US State captial to not have a McDonald’s restaurant.
OonwR TIL that ashes (cremated remains) can be compressed into a diamond. Several, actually. They've created up to 9 diamonds from a single person's remains.
w0AP TIL Ghengis Khan forbade the selling of women, theft of other’s properties, decreed religious freedom, outlawed hunting during breeding seasons, and exempted the poor from taxation.