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TIL Some Whale's Milk is so Full of Fat that it has the Consistency of Toothpaste

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aw9BJ TIL the term "Freelancer" refers to a knight in the Middle Ages not under feudal oaths who sold his services to the highest bidder. Since a knight's primary weapon was a lance, he was a "free" "lancer"
woAAo TIL that the first person in England killed by a tiger was a bartender in a pub called the White Lion.
Wk6eN TIL there’s a type of honey called "mad honey," which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make dangerous vertical climbs to harvest it since it sells for $60-80 a pound
WkDKN TIL of the "Triangle of Death" on your face, an area heavily connected via blood vessels to the skull where infections (commonly staph) due to broken skin can spread rapidly to critical parts of the brain.
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