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TIL of a Black cat-eating festival in Peru "rooted in culinary pragmatism when slaves lived on cotton plantations and had little else to eat." - Reuters (2001)

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neko7 TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%.
4Xkla TIL that the Holy Roman state of Hesse-Kessel became a "mercenary state" renting out its army to other major powers. The state maintained strict neutrality, to the point that it would rent out soldiers to both sides of a conflict and the Hessian soldiers would end up fighting each other.
rxG1 TIL The cash register sound effect in The Beatles “Yellow Submarine” was the same used years later in the beginning of Pink Floyd’s “Money”.
ZGdB TIL that Katy Perry started out as a Contemporary Christian singer with her first album, under her real name Katy Hudson
gMWOL TIL Black Sabbath's debut album in 1970 began with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. 43 years later, in 2013, their final album ended with the sound of rain and a distant church bell.