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TIL that “miraculous”appearances of bloody eucharist in the middle ages were actually result of growth of a pinkish-reddish bacteria called Serratia marcescens

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EglMP TIL the movie Malcolm X (starring Denzel Washington) only got completed because of donations from Oprah, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Janet Jackson, Prince, Bill Cosby, and Tracy Chapman. This was after Warner Bros refused to give Spike Lee any more money to finish the film
awno TIL That a Scientists once carved some meat out of 36,000-year-old baby bison and made a stew, The stew was not only edible, but deemed “acceptable.”
9Y64r TIL - Whipping boy was an actual title. If a young royal misbehaved, it was considered an insult to the monarchy to physically punish them. As a result, a friend of the young royal was chosen to receive all of the physical punishment.
8ebGb TIL the Russian radio telescope RT-70 transmitted a series of 501 messages to the exoplanet Gliese 581c in an attempt to contact an extraterrestrial species. The messages will arrive in 2029.
PmJn TIL that duct tape therapy for warts has not actually been shown to work.