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TIL there was anti-slavery ship called the HMS Black Joke during the 1820s

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5YANP TIL that in the 18th century, many prominent voices were concerned by the threat posed by people reading too much. They called it "reading lust" or "reading mania" and warned that it would lead to morally dissolute and promiscuous behaviour.