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TIL bathing was common in the Middle Ages and people understood the importance of being clean.

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VBopG TIL a snail's anus is above its head
B44r TIL in 1924, children playing on the banks of a river in Germany discovered a human skull. More bones were discovered, eventually leading to the arrest of Fritz Haarman, who was butchering humans and selling their flesh as pork.
6EjW TIL there is a Brazilian island forbidden to the public, densely populated (1 per square meter) with one of the deadliest snake species, the golden lancehead.
7rveZ TIL that Dim, the rhinoceros beetle from A Bug's Life (1998), had no known reference in nature until the Megaceras briansaltini was discovered in 2007. This phenomena, of nature mimicking art, was coined the Dim Effect by its discoverer.
MdmK TIL many animal shelters do not allow adoption of black cats in October to protect the cats from being sacrificed or tortured.