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TIL the beaked masks used during the Bubonic Plague were often filled with flowers and herbs because putrid smells were thought to transmit diseases.

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RoJ4 TIL a study found that a hundred high schools - about 0.3 percent of the nationwide total - account for 23 percent of students at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Of those hundred, all but six are private.
MeX50 TIL that when Parker pens entered the Mexican market, their slogan of ‘‘It won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you’’ was mistranslated and so the ad read: “It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.”
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