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TIL: Amniotic fluid dries into a fern pattern on a slide on its own without anything added to it

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pYBZG TIL Billiards was originally played with a mace, a curved wooden head attached to a narrow handle, which was used to push the ball rather than strike it.
QJjOM TIL: The 4.2-kiloyear event was one of the most severe climatic events of the Holocene, which is said to have caused the decline of many civilizations from Egypt to the Indus valley.
J1QWB TIL the ampersand (&), also known as the "and" sign, originated as a ligature (two or more graphemes or letters that are joined into a single glyph) of the letters 'e' and 't' to form 'et', Latin for "and".
67dm TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
v0Jr TIL the phrase “sex, drugs and rock and roll” is just a modernization of the much older “wine, women and song.”