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TIL there is an Aztec god of homosexuality named Xōchipilli
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TIL after 50 years researchers have identified the mystery man on the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV as Lot Long, a thatcher who was born in Mere, Wiltshire in 1823 & died in 1893. At the time of the photograph, he was a widower living in a small cottage in Shaftesbury Road, Mere.
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TIL that the PowerBook G5 didn't come out because the PPC G5 CPU was too hot.
7nBP
TIL Twofold Bay whalers had an agreement with a local pod of orcas known as “The Law of the Tongue”. The orcas would herd whales towards shore and block off their escape, allowing whalers to harpoon them. The tongues of the captured whales would then be cut out and thrown to the orcas as tribute.
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TIL of a Biotech firm that can create fake rhino horns indistinguishable from real ones, and plans to flood the market with them so as to crash the price of Rhino horns and disincentive poaching.
VBX0D
TIL: The Adamites were a 15th century sect that took up the practice of going naked through towns and villages. They considered exclusive marriage to be a sin, and that the chaste were unworthy to enter heaven.