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TIL that non-mixed-race marriages were banned in Paraguay in the early 1800s

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REnQ TIL: There are 3 pages in a play called “Sir Thomas More” that were written by “Hand D.” Hand D is in fact… the only surviving handwriting of William Shakespeare.
wLaY8 TIL that the word "jaywalker" was invented by automobile manufacturers and enthusiasts from the word "jay" which was then slang for country bumpkin or rube. Earliest uses actually referred to "jay drivers," but automobile interests successfully transitioned the blame to pedestrians.
R5R86 TIL of Alyoshenka, a prematurely born female baby so highly deformed that the fetus is believed to be of extraterrestrial origin (or from fall-out from the 1957 Kyshtym Disaster). The body was given up for DNA testing and went missing (photos and video remains).
Y78Mv TIL camels and whales are more closely related than camels and horses
e0jQk TIL In 1858, Swiss astronomer Johann Rudolf Wolf published his formula for determining the daily sunspot number: k(10g + f); where g is the number of sunspot groups; f is the number of individual sunspots; and k is a calibration factor, different for each observer