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rNyNx TIL that Treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.
jNL8E TIL if the film Something's Got to Give was released, Marilyn Monroe would've had the first topless scene in mainstream cinema.
Z8jJo TIL that until the mid-twentieth century, golf clubs were not numbered, but had wonderfully funny names: brassies, niblicks, baffies, mashies, jiggers, spoons, and cleeks.
mx8Ap TIL a British woman holds the world record for longest sneezing fit ever recorded. Donna Griffiths started sneezing on January 13th,1981 and didn't stop until September 16th, 1983(997th day). It's estimated she sneezed 1 million times in the first 365 days.
ARaB TIL In U.S. today, 87% Approve of Black-White Marriage, vs. 4% in 1958.