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TIL that female protesters in Egypt were subjected to virginity tests after being arrested. In 2012.

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699wm TIL the small and exquisite Shropshire sun pendant looks like art deco, but this gold treasure is in fact 3,000 years old, from a time when it was assumed the local Britons were living in huts or caves
WkBNo TIL - During 'The Night of Long Knives' Chancellor Hitler ordered a series of 85 murders and over 1,000 arrests by his Secret Police and Gestapo against political enemies in the current government. Hitler used the purge to attack or eliminate critics of his new regime.
grv5X TIL the world’s first newspaper horoscope happened because British newspapers ran out of stuff to talk about when Princess Margaret was born in 1930.
xlJw TIL Clay pipe fragments excavated from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon home contained small amounts of cocaine, cannabis and myristic acid
MdAb TIL the owner of Macy’s died on the Titanic. He refused to get in a lifeboat before women and children, and his wife refused to leave without him. She said, “I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so will we die, together.” They were last seen standing on the deck, arm in arm