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TIL that the Bible contains a second list of laws also referred to as the Ten Commandments. Scholars call it the “Ritual Decalogue” and it includes a law saying that you shouldn’t boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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rnly TIL the engineer of the Kalka-Shimla Railway in India killed himself after miscalculation of where two halves of a tunnel would meet
JYkv TIL that if two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together. This reaction is called cold welding.
WkejB TIL that Danish 1, 2 and 5 kröner coins have holes in them to help blind people differentiate between coins.
kOr41 TIL the reason cows are considered too sacred to eat in India is because historically a cow was more valuable there as a source of milk, labor, and dung than it could ever be as meat, so it'd be dumb to eat them. Over time this turned into a cultural taboo.
e00y6 TIL all the spiders on Earth weigh more than all the aircraft carriers