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TIL: Covent Garden Ladies was London's directory of prostitutes published from 1757-95. It advertised different women, for example: "Miss Clicamp: finest, fattest figure as fully finished for fun and frolick as fertile fancy ever formed. Fortunate for the true lovers of fat."

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