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TIL in Icelandic folklore there's a creature, called a "Tilberi". A sorceress makes it by combining a dead man’s rib and wool between her legs, and watering it with sanctified wine from three Sunday communions. When it grows, the Tilberi sucks blood from a special nipple on the inside of her thighs.

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0wm75 TIL that fishers, a member of the weasel family, are one of the few predators that seek out and kill porcupines and have been documented routinely preying on lynxes, being the primary cause of lynx mortality in the wild.
DEoe TIL Gao Chai, a disciple of Confucius, served as a judge and once condemned a criminal to getting his foot cut off. When he was later fleeing the state, the same man saved his life.
jNYOj TIL Captain Cook's return to Hawaii coincided with the Makahiki, a Hawaiian harvest festival of worship for the god Lono. Coincidentally the form of Cook's ship resembled certain artifacts that formed part of the season of worship. He was flayed a month later after trying to kidnap the king.
9YKPG TIL that during cold war, CIA conducted a $350 million cost secret project in 1974 called Project Azorian to recover a soviet submarine K-129 sunken in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean. It recovered only 1/3rd of the submarine, but the research lead to great advances in deep ocean drilling and mining.
MBoA TIL merchants were traditionally placed at the bottom of the four-tier social class system in feudal Japan because unlike artisans, farmers and fisherman, merchants weren’t considered productive.