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TIL the scientific name for the American Bison is “Bison bison”

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GAnx4 TIL that Ayn Rand actually hated the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists of her time.
e08Yn TIL that the Yale Tablets contain the world's oldest recorded recipes that were written in 1700 BC. In 2018, a team recreated its recipe for beef stew.
0d6bA TIL celebrity chef Jamie Oliver named his children "Poppy Honey Rosie" "Daisy Boo Pamela" "Petal Blossom Rainbow" "Buddy Bear Maurice" and "River Rocket Blue Dallas"
Eg70p TIL the numeral system we use today was invented by Indian mathematicians (1st–4th c.), adopted and expanded by Arabic scholars in the 9th c., and spread to Europe by the Middle Ages, mainly used in Northern Italy until the printing press.
4kPLN TIL Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were Victorian cross-dressers and homosexual men from upper-middle-class families. Their trial and acquittal were a "significant moment in the history of the hesitant emergence of a public discourse of the homosexual as an identity."