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TIL Cola and beer is really common in Germany, its called "diesel"

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mx9mo TIL that a number of Victorian photographers combined images from more than one negative to create illusions or novelty portraits. “Headless Photographs” featured men and women with “their heads floating in the air or in their laps”.
oBPlr TIL, not only are eggplants fruits, they're technically classified as a berry
6EMoY TIL that pregnancy tests actually existed 3,500 years in Ancient Egypt! It even predicted the gender! Women would urinate on two bags; one filled with wheat and the other barley. If they grew, it means they're pregnant! If the wheat grew faster it's a girl. If the barley did, then it's a boy.
X0X8X TIL Even Mild Dehydration Can Lower Your Focus, Memory, and Mood
j4OE TIL Spider Silk is so strong it has been theorized by scientists that a single strand the width of a pencil could stop a Boeing 747 in mid flight