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TIL wild strawberries taste “almost unrecognizable” from regular strawberry

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WWy4 TIL that the word lunatic comes from people thinking that the moon could cause madness.
loOBG TIL of Sgt Pilcher, who in 1960s London arrested Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Donovan, George Harrison, John Lennon, among others, for drugs possession. He almost got Eric Clapton, but the guitarist legged it out the back when Pilcher claimed to be the postman with a special delivery.
AayB TIL that Wilko Johnson, British music legend and the actor that plays mute executioner Ilyn Payne in Game of Thrones has pancreatic cancer and has been given 9-10 months to live.
b67r4 TIL that Karl Marx had an illegitimate son with his housemaid that he never acknowledged, and Marx's friend Engels agreed to take on paternity for the boy instead.
wLm61 TIL 'Figging' is the practice of inserting a piece of skinned ginger into the anus or vagina to produce an acute burning sensation. It was historically used as punishment but is now adopted as a BDSM practice.