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TIL if someone is wearing an upside down pineapple on a cruise ship they’re into swinging.

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7r7Lp TIL in 1665 the Derbyshire village of Eyam made the remarkable decision to quarantine itself in an attempt to halt the spread of the Great Plague. 260 from 76 different families died, but the plague didn't reach the nearby towns of Sheffield and Bakewell
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
wnOE TIL that the Book of Mormon suggests that there were donkeys, cattle, horses, oxen, sheep, pigs, goats, elephants, wheat, barley, figs, silk, steel, brass, scimitars, and chariots in Pre-Columbian America. None of them existed in America before Columbus.
1a098 TIL Babies cry with an accent from the second day of life.
neXW7 TIL about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "the Godmother of Rock and Roll". Tharpe was a pioneer in her guitar technique; among the first popular recording artists to use heavy distortion on her electric guitar and her technique had a profound influence on Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Keith Richards