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History: 5 fast facts about Florence Nightingale

12th June 2019
1. La Dolce Vita Florence’s parents named her after the city of her birth, a lovely reminder of their three-year-long…
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Florence Nightingale
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History: When health officials took it tattoo far and started inking schoolchildren

5th June 2019
The ‘duck and cover’ drills of 1950s America are infamous — mostly because the idea of a flip-top desk acting as some sort…
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Duck and cover drill
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History: When a hotel kept killing its most prestigious guests (and almost a President)

25th April 2019
Imagine a hotel where, instead of a courtesy continental breakfast and those mini shampoo and conditioners, you’re treated…
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National Hotel, DC
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History: How this sailor's party trick landed him in deep water

12th April 2019
American sailor John Cummings wasn’t the sharpest knife in the galley. “In 1799, he had seen a French juggler perform the…
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Knives
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History: What men used to do to treat erectile dysfunction is kind of a downer

27th March 2019
Long before the little blue pill, men went to all sorts of lengths to treat erectile dysfunction. The male affliction was…
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Electric belt ad
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History: Forget CPR. Blowing smoke up the butts of drowned patients used to be the in thing

22nd March 2019
From ancient civilisations to prerevolutionary France, the history of the enema is awash with fans of the colonic cure-all. …
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enema
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History: He performed the first ever lithotripsy - on himself ... with a knitting needle

13th March 2019
Feel free to pre-emptively cross your legs in discomfort for this one. When Colonel Claude Martin, a French army officer in…
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Colonel Claude Martin