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TIL that the reason we refer to people as redheads instead of more accurately as “orangeheads” is because both the fruit and the word to describe its color doesn’t enter the English language until the 1300’s.

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yn6V TIL it’s faster and more efficient to cook pasta in a frying pan.
0A4N TIL that steel from the sunk Imperial German Navy is used extensively in space ship equipment, as steel produced after 1945 is contaminated by nuclear pollution.
5bmr TIL that Dalmatians are traditional fire house mascots because they get along with horses.
axo0 TIL that “duckies” (“duckys”) was a medieval English slang term for a woman’s breasts, used by (among others) Henry VIII in letters to Anne Boleyn.
woO06 TIL that people with hypermobility carry a gene that makes them much more likely to have children with autism.