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TIL that during the Middle Ages period, male physicians discredited their female counterparts who practiced medicine as being incompetent and dangerous. The civil leaders and the clerics branded such women as witches.

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b6X89 TIL That the reason for women's buttons being on the left and men's on the right is because women would have servants dress them while men's buttons follow military uniform practice
PZRE TIL: The FBI poisoned alcohol during the Prohibition, in order to kill and try to frighten Americans from Alcohol.
aw0kJ TIL that dogs develop bite inhibition, the ability to control the strength of a bite, as puppies after learning that too harsh of bites often interrupt play
BALd TIL a six-second-long drum break from the late sixties has become the most used sample of music to date, as it helped form the basis for both hip hop and drum and bass music.
GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.