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TIL Weinstein has been thanked more than God at the Oscars

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rRdpo TIL that immediately after the end of slavery was declared in America, there was a surge in Wanted Ads placed in newspapers across the country. African-Americans used them to search for family members sold or escaped, sometimes decades earlier.
R5gn4 TIL that the sarcophagus of pharaoh Nectanebo II was later re-used as a bath-tub.
YpoKr TIL Central America/Mexico has a jumping spider that exhibits traits and isotopic signatures of herbivorous animals, and while it may steal the occasional ant larvae during particularly dry seasons 90% of it's diet is from protein and fat-rich nubs called Belitan nubs from Mimosaceae trees.
4kbLa TIL that badgers aren’t a single type of animal. It’s a name applied to about 20 animals in the skunk and weasel families that have squat bodies and like to dig.
AN0YB TIL Lord Lyndhurst’s Act (1835) prohibited marriage to your dead wife's sister. This was repealed by the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act (1907) [United Kingdom]