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TIL that there is no corn involved in making corned beef, the 'corns' are the name for coarse grains of salt used in the curing process.

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l7WMA TIL The first female millionaire was an African American lady.
XZZr TIL in 1559 a (male) surgeon claimed to have discovered the clitoris, announcing “ "Since no one has discerned these projections and their workings, if it is permissible to give names to things discovered by me, it should be called the love or sweetness of Venus”
4Xl6J TIL there is an entrance fee to enter the cemetary to visit the tomb of Karl Marx
7rygL TIL of Fang Zheng, whose legs were run over by a tank during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 while he was getting a fainted female student to safety. She refused to testify for him during the investigations and she would later claim that she was not with him during the incident.
mW9O TIL that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming.