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TIL that in the 19th century people called homosexuals “Uranian”

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mxOnM TIL when a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would mourn by shaving off their eyebrows and would continue mourning until they grew back.
6EyL7 TIL of U-505, a Type IXC U-boat, that was attacked and successfully captured by a Hunter-Killer task group in 1944. Towed to Bermuda, the submarine was brought to Chicago, Illinois where it was restored and placed on display in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
WkQBN TIL That the reason beans actually give you gas is because of a sugar found in beans called oligosaccharide that the body cannot fully break down. When these sugars move into the small intestine, they produce excess gas.
xVp00 TIL that "pink slime" is a meat by-product produced by heating and centrifuging beef trimmings. It is approved for limited human consumption in the United States but is banned for human consumption in the European Union.
Oox07 TIL that the same US textbooks have different political leanings in different states that they are sold in though they are sold as the same books