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TIL the only (1st generation) human hybrid ever discovered isn't even a homo sapien; she's half Neanderthal and half-Denisovan

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R5Pwa TIL that Stephen King was so obsessed with Lou Bega’s Mambo No. 5 that his wife threatened to divorce him over it.
Av9d TIL even though he was a teenager during the Great Depression, John F. Kennedy confessed he really didn’t know about it until he read about it at Harvard.
LQwpQ TIL about the concept of shattering in agriculture. It is a feature of plants that means seeds are dispersed upon maturing and has generally been bred out of crops as part of their domestication, meaning that the seeds aren’t lost & can be harvested and processed -for example by grinding into flour.
PYaXE TIL of ‘Sin Eaters’ whose job it was to “eat” the sins of a deceased person. The position only paid a couple dollars per sin eating and it usually called for the individual to eat a piece of bread that had been sitting on the dead person’s chest or lips.
GYyVN TIL the Comstock act of 1873 labeled contraceptives obscene and carried a $5000 fine or 5 years hard labor for sending information about or contraceptives thru the mail. Abortifacients, obscenity (which includes poopies), sex toys or information concerning topics were included in the patent act.