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TIL: UNTIL 2013, THE US NAVY SENT MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS

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X0rk TIL an 18th Century pirate named Calico Jack stole a ship and ran off with another man’s wife, Anne Bonny, who dressed like a man to hide her gender. Among Jack’s crew was another woman dressed as a man, Mary Read. When captured and facing execution, both women were pregnant and were thus pardoned.
pYmVb TIL: Baker’s asthma is a type of asthma that is unique to bakers and caused by breathing in flour and grains
J1KM4 TIL that in 1690, a Swedish man was executed for having sex with a “bergrå” (a mountain nymph).
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