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mxn5p TIL about Horace Greasley, a British POW who escaped a German POW camp more than 200 times in five years to visit his girlfriend, a local woman named Rosa Rauchbauch. He returned each time with contraband for his fellow captives
Yo4W TIL of the Sworn Virgins, women in the Balkans that have taken a vow of chastity in order to live their lives as men, allowing them to be heads of households and engage in male activities like smoking, drinking and carrying a gun.
grWvX TIL Shampoo was introduced to Britain in 1814. The Bengali surgeon Sake Dean Mahomed opened the Isles' first shampoo bath in Brighton that year and promoted the practice as able to cure many diseases and give full relief when everything else failed.
ned9P TIL The oldest recorded marriage in the USA is from 1565, between a Spaniard and a free black woman.
Owy1 TIL that an ’&’ between two writers for a movie (e.g. “Quentin Tarantino & Woody Allen”) means the writers worked together on the script as a team, while an ‘and’ (“Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen”) means they worked on the same script independently.