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TIL about Monjeríos, where Indigenous girls in colonial California were forced to live in terrible conditions, abused, and even had their husbands chosen by priests.

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D16yj TIL that two of Robert the Bruce’s female relatives were kept in cages to be publicly humiliated for four years by Edward I of England during the Scottish struggle to maintain independence in the 14th century
gWOX TIL in all Japanese schools they run an emergency drill where a police officer dressed as an assailant freely runs around campus and tries to attack students with a realistic-looking plastic knife, while the teachers coordinate a defense to subdue him.
xVJy7 TIL The last two remnants of the virus known to cause smallpox, which are kept in tightly controlled government laboratories in the United States and Russia. In 2013, cloned variola major (smallpox) DNA fragments were found in a South African laboratory.
4kvxR TIL: The Office episode "Work Bus" was directed by Bryan Cranston
OoXmX TIL that not only can eyeballs be rugby-ball shaped (astigmatism) instead of basket-ball shaped, but one in 2000 people have a cornea shaped like the top of The Gherkin, rather than the O2 Arena. This is called Keratoconus and causes blurred vision, but not blindness.