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TIL: In Ancient Rome, women used opium-soaked tampons to relieve pain

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oMrK TIL that in 1849, Henry “Box” Brown, a 33 year-old slave born in slavery, mailed himself to freedom in a 3'x2'x2'8" (91x61x81cm) wooden crate. To get a day off, he burned his hand to the bone with sulfuric acid. Brown paid 86$ to be shipped from Richmond, Virginia to Philadelphia in 27 hours.
4XalN TIL about the game "Conkers," a traditional English childhood game using chestnuts
P1xBn TIL that Kentucky Bluegrass, a common grass planted in suburban lawns in the North America, is not from Kentucky, and not even native to North America. It comes from Europe, North Asia, and Northern Africa and was imported by the Spanish Empire.
WkMmd TIL ... All non herbal teas (white, green, black, oolong, pu-erh, etc.) come from the same plant Camellia sinesis. Though different varietals in the plant have developed among different regions, teas from the same region only differ by oxidation and not the leaf itself.
ANGnd TIL that "historians have determined that nearly 50 percent of the population of Sicily and southern Italy has Italian Jewish roots and was once Jewish."