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TIL that during the Medieval era, European royal households would employ a 'mustardarius', whose sole purpose was to supervise the cultivation and preparation of mustard.

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0wjZj TIL The Soviets were the first to land a human made object on another planet- Venus- during the Venera missions, 1961-1984. In that environment the maximum survival time for one of the probes was just under 2 hrs.
epjZJ TIL of The Centipede's Dilemma, originally a poem, it refers to the effect of overthinking or paying too much attention to what we usually do instinctively and how it can lead to failing at it.
6E7e8 TIL that most Asians suffer from lactose intolerance and that humans in general become lactose intolerant after weaning. It’s only with the advent of agriculture that some races were able to properly digest milk and other dairy products even if they’re already adults.
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