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TIL in the 18th-20th centuries in Britain STD patients would be 'quarantined' in a facility called a "Lock hospital," a hospital designed to treat STD victims; originally used to house victims of leprosy.

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LkJJZ TIL James Cromwell, the actor who played Farmer Hoggett in Babe, has since been arrested at least five times for animal rights activism
6EQK8 TIL Scapegoating was an actual practice where a town would place all of their sins on to a goat and then cast it out of the town to die, thus 'removing' the sin from the town's people.
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X4J8 TIL The Rosetta Disk is 3 inches in diameter yet has etched into its surface an archive of over 1,500 human languages. It has over 13,000 pages of information which need to be magnified 1000 times to be read.