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TIL a new religion has emerged in Tennessee that believes all US voting days are a religious holiday, legally allowing all members to vote by mail. They have Ministers in Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia.

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v1GEK TIL: Tea was fashionable in Britain only after Charles II's Portuguese wife, Catherine of Braganza, popularized it. When she arrived in England she asked for a cup of tea, but was given ale instead.
9Yyjm TIL: In Bronx Zoo, a pigmy man was put in cage by the so called scientific community for others to see and he was considered less than a human. This continued till the man killed himself.
9wO0G TIL that researchers have developed a wearable bioreactor that, with just 24 hours of use, can induce long-term limb regeneration in adult Xenopus laevis frogs. This treatment led to significant tissue regrowth and functional recovery over 18 months.
VB0gk TIL that the term 'spinster' derives from the profession of spinning and threading yarn in the 1300s, one of the few jobs available to lower-status, unmarried women -- and this term carried no stigma initially
ZpKmD TIL Commercial drones and controllers emits its location unencrypted which is why police can easily locate them.