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TIL pirates wore an eye patche so when they went below deck they could switch the patch to the other eye to see in the dark right away without waiting for their eyes to adjust.

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myEv TIL that in 2013 a 200-year-old law was removed in Paris that forbid women from wearing pants.
4XdQ6 TIL that barely a year after the 1969 moon landing the American public had completely lost interest in space exploration - to such an extent that 90% of people surveyed could not remember Neil Armstrong's name.
NXeO6 TIL the cities of Chicago and Washington D.C. have curfews prohibiting anyone under 18 years to be outside after 10-12 PM.
nBy9 TIL that Pope John XII was a very sinful Pope who turned the Vatican into a brothel, often praised pagan gods while gambling, and was killed in a sexual encounter outside Rome.
GYmyN TIL that descendants of the artist Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) include the current monarchs of Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands.