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TIL there's a suit designed to facilitate sex in space

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4k8oN TIL about the hindu goddess Kamadhenu, mother of all cows and a deity who is considered a miraculous cow of plenty. She was depicted as a white cow with wings, a female head and boobs and tail of a peafowl.
7VoO TIL that visitors to the Lascaux caves in France do not see the genuine 17,000 year old art, but a replica created to help protect the originals.
4kNwa TIL that Ulysses S. Grant incurred more Union loss of life than was inflicted on the Confederacy during his Eastern Campaigns of the American Civil War.
OGOgR TIL that in 1560, Queen Elizabeth became the first well-known woman to wear stockings, which up until that point, was considered menswear.
X0gBr TIL that there were only 45 days separating the events of 9/11/01 and the passing of the US Patriot Act