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TIL in post-Independence Argentina, turpentine enemas were given to political dissenters as a form of punishment

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m1Y4x TIL that through much of the history of agriculture, threshing was time-consuming and laborious. Until the late 18th century, before threshing was mechanized, about one-quarter of agricultural labor was devoted to it.
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