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TIL The Trachtenberg system of rapid and high-speed mental calculation was developed by a Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to mantain his sanity while being held in a Nazi concentration camp

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7BgP TIL that in 1989, Disney forced three daycare centers to remove a mural of Mickey, Donald and Goofy under threat of legal action
JYK11 TIL that medieval Iceland had a law against writing love poems to women, they were called "Mansöngr" or "maiden songs." If found guilty you were branded a full outlaw and banned from the island.
b9W1N TIL Homosexual men in England used a unique cant slang, Polari, to communicate, as being homosexual was a crime punishable by prison and mental institutions.
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