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TIL that sailors wore gold ear-rings because the value was enough to bury you in a foreign country.

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E1MoX TIL of the Pioneer Plaque, a pair of plaques sent on the Pioneer spacecrafts that included a naked man, a naked woman, and a diagram representing the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque was designed to transmit information to potential aliens who might intercept Pioneer 10 and 11.
WMkA TIL that the red juice that comes off of meat actually isn’t blood.
Gp9g TIL that belief in elves is so widespread in Iceland that in in 1982, 150 Icelanders went to the NATO base in Keflavík to look for elves who might be endangered by American Phantom jets and AWACS reconnaissance planes.
ElgX TIL a 2006 trial of an autoimmune drug that was found to be safe in mice, caused human volunteers fingers and toes to die within minutes of taking it and left them with multiple organ failures.
neglB Today I learned Mozart composed “Leck mich im Arsch”, which translates to “Lick me in the arse”