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TIL during the Victorian age, women appreciated the beauty that tuberculosis caused - the thin waist, pale skin, red lips and rosey cheeks of those affected. It became quickly a tuberculosis inspired trend - referred to as "Consumptive Chic" - that led women to intentionally contracting the disease.

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gMAX TIL that ‘The Lion King’ was originally supposed to be titled 'The King of the Jungle’. The reason they changed it is because they learned that lions don’t actually live in the jungle, they live in the savannah.
LQ5Wp TIL of a woman who birthed 69 children. She had 27 pregnancies, resulting in about 20 years of pregnancy.
PYJNn TIL Namarrkon is an important creation ancestor (in Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) N. Territory, Australia) who is responsible for the violent lightning storms that occur every tropical summer -- And he looks like an alien.
XEAg6 TIL More than 130 words and phrases on the Let's Speak Inuktitut project, or UKâlalautta Inuttitut, has been recorded and published on SoundCloud. The Inuktitut language in Labrador is starting to almost disappear
4Xkx6 TIL that the first smartphone, an IBM prototype codenamed Angler, debuted in 1992--three years before the word 'smartphone' was invented. It sent emails, ran apps, and had a working touch screen.