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TIL the male equivalent of a ballerina is a ballerino

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b9XP0 TIL that Mary, from the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb," 's real name was Mary Sawyer. She was an 11-year-old girl who lived in Boston and one day was followed to school by her pet lamb. In the late 1860s, she helped raise money for an old church by selling wool from the lamb.
69M4m TIL about the Rubens tube, also known as a flame tube, invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905. A tube capped on both ends is filled with gas has 100 tiny flames that creates soundwave visualization
9YMrB TIL that the Ozone layer is healing and is likely to heal fully by 2060.
nW8go TIL that beetles can secrete liquid known as Cantharidin, which can burn human skin.
gMvA4 TIL Sorrell Booke ("Boss Hogg") had degrees from Yale and Columbia, spoke 5 languages, was an intelligence officer in the Korean War, once conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, wore a fat suit to play Boss Hogg