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TIL that an Ohio woman who abandoned kittens was sentenced to sleep in the woods, with no food or entertainment.

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nYDo TIL: that during the black death, several French cities ran out of places to bury the dead, so Pope Clement VI had to consecrate the entire Rhone River so that it could be considered holy ground and bodies could be thrown into it.
PoXJ TIL Hitler had an Irish nephew called William Patrick Hitler. He thought Adolf was a perverted madman and after emigrating from Ireland to the US he ended up enlisting to fight against his uncle in the medical corps
0wBoL TIL the armonica which Benjamin Franklin invented in 1761 (and some believed caused madness) owes its disorienting sound due to the way we perceive and locate sound. Above 4khz we use loudness for location. Below 1khz we use phase differences. The armonica (1-4khz) is in a range the brain is unsure.
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