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TIL that when the Waltz was introduced it was considered vulgar and indecent, suitable only for “prostitutes and adulteresses”

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xVdbk TIL about “The Harris’s List”, a catalogue from the 1700’s of all the prostitutes in London during that period, where you could find any sex workers’ address, price, age, skills, and it would rate their performance and describe their appearance. It was published annually for decades
xVJB5 TIL of Northwest Airlines Flight 188. The pilots got distracted and overflew their destination by 150 miles.
aay9 TIL that the world’s first programmers were women, a fact that took 50 years to be recognised.
lEl7 TIL that the average American woman weighs too much to use birth control effectively.
GA6g TIL in 1974 a Florida news reporter killed herself on camera and had already written out the script to be read after her death.