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TIL one man, Lawrence Pazder, can be attributed to starting the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, with a book “Michelle Remembers”, about his patient and future wife, Michelle Proby. The entirety of Proby’s “satanic” abuse has been discredited.

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E1bP TILAfter the fall of Rome, a new illiterate Europe arose. The Irish saved civilization by copying lost books. These astonishingly decorated Irish manuscripts of the early medieval period are today the great jewels of libraries in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and even Russia.
YP4x TIL that American courts have begun citing Urban Dictionary to clarify slang terms whose meanings are important to the outcome of court cases, such as to “jack” meaning to steal
g4Ay TIL that ancient Greeks invented the modern shower using piped water. Rich and poor used large locker-room showers with bars to hang up clothing. Ancient Romans did the same, bringing showers to as far as England. The systems and habits of bathing every day disappeared after the fall of Rome.
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