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TIL that tyromancy is the practice of foretelling the future with cheese

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7rbyp Today I learned that IRN-BRU, a scottish drink that "tastes like liquid bubblegum," has it's own tartan.
xVvxb TIL that many early texts described Jesus as "ugly and small". He is estimated to have been four feet, six inches tall.
xPnB TIL New Zealand will deny people residency visas if they have too high of a BMI and there has been cases of people rejected because of their weight.
1aKKP TIL: The first person to set foot on the North Pole was an African-American man named Matthew Henson.
E0x TIL While awaiting execution, Nikolai Bukharin wrote to Stalin, “Koba, why do you need me to die?”. ‘Koba’ was Stalin’s revolutionary pseudonym, and Bukharin’s use of it was a sign of how close the two had once been. The note was found still in Stalin’s desk after his death in 1953.