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TIL: The largest joint in your body is the knee and one of the most complex.

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5wVk TIL than in 1881 a woman got away with murdering a man who broke off their engagement by using the “hysteria defense,” i.e., a doctor told the jury that “Any virtuous woman when deprived of her virtue would go mad, undoubtedly.” The jury acquitted her in 20 minutes.
x6ey5 TIL that investigative reporters from the Chicago Sun-Times bought and operated their own neighborhood bar in 1978 to expose corruption by city inspectors
1aNa8 TIL that an English player pooped himself during a game at the 1990 world cup, wiped on the pitch and kept on playing.
kOkeW TIL that the Roman Emperor Commodus had a bath attendant thrown into an oven after he found his bathwater was lukewarm. Due to repeated attempts on his life, he often had Roman citizens killed for making him angry.
GAmMg TIL that Aruna Shanbaug, an Indian nurse spent 42 years in a vegetative state after a brutal assault in 1973. Shanbaug died of pneumonia on 18 May 2015, after being in a persistent vegetative state for nearly 42 years.