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TIL a farmer’s observation of his cows made his town a hot touristic spot for the rich and famous of 1600s England. He noticed that cows wouldn’t drink from a particular pond. The water was bitter. Also, it had medical properties. Epsom Salts were born and Epsom town became a popular spa destination

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aJ7A TIL deaf people usually sneeze silently, most sneezing sounds are cultural.
opro TIL some shots of the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were secretly filmed during an actual parade. The production’s float was inserted into the parade “unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor”
VMXlp TIL about Jasmine Richards, who at 12 years old in 2006, stabbed her little brother to death while her 23 year old boyfriend at the time murdered the her parents. She's the youngest person in Canada to get charged with murder.
eYZE TIL in his will, businessman Cecil Rhodes (namesake of the Rhodes scholarship) left money for the creation of a secret society whose purpose was to bring the entire world under British rule
QJvwE TIL that fruit flies were the first animal launched into space because they are genetically similar to humans and the space station has an aquarium for observation of fish in space.