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TIL that half of all Americans don't change their underwear daily

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RK11 TIL Canadian Thanksgiving was the original Thanksgiving. The first one was celebrated by Martin Frobisher in 1578, who wanted to praise god that he survived his expedition to search for the Northwest Passage.
0wO95 TIL that in Ancient Rome, for males, homosexuality was not only completely normal but also thought of as a sign of masculinity, but only if they were the top.
LkrM0 TIL the first use of Biological Warfare, and the cause of one of the first recorded epidemics ever, occured when the Hittite Empire released rams infected with Tularemia into enemy lands over 3500 years ago.
Wdpd TIL 1986, a world-class runner dropped out of the middle of a 10,000 meter race and jumped off a bridge. She did not die, but she became quadriplegic. “All of a sudden, I just felt like something snapped inside of me”
b6mK9 TIL Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, a French entomologist, living in Medford, Mass. in the late 1800s, decided to create a cross-breed of caterpillars from native North American moths and European caterpillars Lymantria dispar, in order to start a competitive silk industry. (rest of the story in comment)