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TIL Black Sabbath has had 'at least 21' members since forming in 1968. Ozzy Osbourne lasted 11 years. Guitarist Tony Iommi has been the only consistent member for 52 years

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78pb7 TIL that the term mortician was invented as part of a PR campaign by the funeral industry, which felt it was more customer-friendly than undertaker.
kJYl4 TIL in 1971 a radical faction calling itself the Weather Underground claimed credit for a bomb exploding in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.(no injuries, just damages).
x6PA0 TIL: Amniotic fluid consists of largely fetal urine, and it cycles through swallowing and urinating while in the womb.
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KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.