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TIL that erotic terracotta was mass produced by ancient Babylonians

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eG1L TIL that Japan still has populated colonies of elderly leprosy patients, and forced segregation of those afflicted with leprosy was not declared unconstitutional until 2001.
PYXKn TIL that three English sailors walked from Florida to Nova Scotia in 1569
5YNdR TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen
R5xYl TIL that in the 1750s, doctors used tobacco enemas, believing they could cure various diseases. When the practice was debunked, the phrase “blowing smoke up your ass” was born.
Bgw9K TIL that Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland because the first European colonists there were Scottish. So New England is next to New Scotland.