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TIL the story "the vibrator was invented by doctors for giving female patients orgasms to treat hysteria" was a myth.

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n5Vo TIL in the Marvel Universe the cleanup from major battles is handled by Damage Control, a joint venture of Tony Stark and the Kingpin. They even had their own series in the late 80’s.
4XBp6 TIL That there is a family in italy named Marsili which can not feel pain due to a genetic mutation. Family members can suffer burns and broken bones while feeling virtually no pain and they do not need any sort of anesthesia during surgery
71DZ TIL murderer and suspected serial killer Charles Davis raped and strangled his victims and left them on his ambulance route. He would phone in tips and then respond in his ambulance to retrieve the bodies.
aJoM TIL that while in Rome in the 1570’s El Greco dismissed Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel and extended an offer to Pope Pius V to paint over the whole work in accord with the new and stricter Catholic thinking.
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