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TIL Most of our favorite chewing gum and bubble gum is made out of plastic.

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KYBR4 TIL there is currently a worldwide shortage of black pepper and the price-per-ton has almost tripled since January 2023.
x6epo TIL the gibnut, a member of the rodent family, is called “Royal Rat” in Belize because it was served in a stew to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1985 visit of the country. She declared it tasted “like rabbit” and was perfectly happy to eat it
D1n5Y TIL Einstein married his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. (Not only were their mothers sisters, but their fathers were cousins too, making the married couple second cousins as well.) The relationship began while Einstein was still married to his first wife, physicist Mileva Marić.
XZZr TIL in 1559 a (male) surgeon claimed to have discovered the clitoris, announcing “ "Since no one has discerned these projections and their workings, if it is permissible to give names to things discovered by me, it should be called the love or sweetness of Venus”
wLEb8 TIL Julie d'Aubigny was a 17th-century traveling swordswoman. Among her other exploits, when her female lover was sent to a convent, she also entered the convent, stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in her lover's bed, escaped with her lover and burnt the convent down.