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TIL about the “Groom of the Stool”, a high ranking position in court that would handle the king’s shit.

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Myg7 TIL Benjamin Franklin tried to abolish slavery in 1790 by petitioning congress and writing many essays on abolitionism.
Kwdw TIL Anomalocaris, an ancient Cambrian predator, was mistakenly classified as three species in different phyla for over 50 years. As it decomposed, its body broke into three separate parts, whose fossils were classified as a jellyfish, a sponge, and a shrimp.
JYLl1 TIL about the world's roundest object intended for re-defining exactly one kilogram by counting the number of silicon-28 atoms that forms it and redefining the Avogadro's number
9YDkD TIL puritans managed to have a prenuptial pregnancy rate of under 10%
LQ060 TIL of the Order of the Solar Temple, a New Age cult that claimed to be founded on the ideals of the Knights Templar. In 1994, they were responsible for the death of a 3 month old baby in Quebec; some time after, many members committed mass suicide in France, Switzerland and Canada.