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TIL: The British lost the cure for scurvy and had to rediscover it

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4j15 TIL of Whipping Tom, the name given to two serial spankers in London in the 17th & 18th centuries. “On seeing an unaccompanied woman, he would grab her, lift her dress, and slap her buttocks repeatedly before fleeing. He would sometimes accompany his attacks by shouting "Spanko!”“
gL98 TIL that comedian Demitri Martin once wrote a 244 word palindromic poem called “Dammit I’m Mad”.
xVgQ1 TIL: 14 cargo ships got stranded in the Suez Canal during the Six-Day-War in 1967 and weren’t able to leave until 8 years later.
Ooev7 TIL after finding a bloodied and dazed 14 year old boy with a drilled hole in his head, police returned him to the serial killer he just escaped from, assuming it was just a quarrel between two lovers
Qg0d TIL Sesame Street’s Count Von Count’s counting obsession come from a traditional vampire myths that depicts vampires as having a fixation with counting small objects. In the myth, the fixation often provides a means of distracting them by tossing a handful of seeds or salt on the ground.