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TIL that CeCe Peniston was the first foreign female entertainer to perform in post-apartheid South Africa.

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rRMGW TIL ARM processors are a descendent of the Acorn RISC machines I learned Logo on in primary school
kQN4 Today I learned that under Mao Zedong, a dentist was executed for malicious slander for comparing a mango to a sweet potato.
GXD1 TIL there’s a YouTube channel dedicated to women reading books while sitting on a vibrator
X0AZ8 TIL that medical bloodletting dates back to ancient Egypt and spread to Greece where the practice was rationalized as balancing the four “humors.” In 1163, the Church prohibited clergy healers from performing the procedure, calling it an abhorred practice, so barbers began to offer the service.
BZ7D TIL that during WWII, actress Veronica Lake changed her image in order to encourage women working in factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles, even though doing so may have harmed her career.