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TIL scientists didn’t use real blood to test absorbency of menstrual products, such as pads, until 2023. Up until then, a saline solution was the default method.

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mxBQM TIL a computer virus discovered in 1991 was named the Michelangelo virus by researchers due to its time bomb feature activating the virus on March 6 of any year, a date that happened to coincide with the birth of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
4kBRw TIL it was illegal to dry clothes on a clothesline in most states in USA, until 2013 when a Right To Dry bill was passed in several states.
l774G TIL Sake is more like beer than wine. Beer = water, yeast, hops, malted grain. Sake = water, yeast, rice fermented by Koji fungus (same stuff that turns soybeans into miso)
Rpl4 TIL That Samuel L. Jackson had ‘Bad Motherfucker’ engraved on the lightsaber he used in Star Wars.
R59Pj TIL 14th century conqueror Timur or Tamerlane's body was exhumed in 1941 by Soviet anthropologist for examination. The casket had the inscription "Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later, Germany invaded Soviet Union.