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TIL that Screamin’ Jay Hawkins had so many illegitimate offspring that a website has been set up to identify them all

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YpGXP TIL The taste map of the tongue that many people learned in school is nonsense. Taste receptors for salty, sweet, bitter and sour are found all over the tongue.
ZewQ TIL During the Stonewall Riots, the rioters responded to the arrival of the tactical riot squad by forming Rockette style kick-lines, and shouting to the tune of Howdy Doody “We are the Stonewall girls/ We wear our hair in curls/ We don’t wear underwear/ We show our pubic hairs.”
e0PE6 TIL that in 1962, elephant bones were discovered under the Vatican. Decades later, it was discovered that they were the bones of Pope Leo X's pet elephant Hanno, who died in 1516 after doctors (in an attempt to treat constipation) inserted a gold enema up its rectum.
8aX5K TIL that only 15% of Americans can read at a University Bachelor’s degree level, with most people reading at a 7th to 8th grade level.
awY7M TIL that panic buying during a pandemic is not new; during the Black Plague a physician in Vienna stated, ‘When the plague broke out, people gorged themselves with such amounts of angelica root that later nobody was able to purchase any, not even for considerable sums of money’.