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TIL about a 50+ year old non-profit called The Society for Creative Anachronism, which is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly European Medieval cultures and their histories before the 17th century.

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Y7R7W TIL that Cuckoo bumblebees are brood parasitic and do not make nests or form colonies; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens and then lay their own eggs, which are cared for by the resident workers.
nelB TIL the sin committed in Sodom and Gomorrah wasn’t homosexuality, it was their lack of hospitality.
Y7REP TIL, that the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is an unratified constitutional amendment still pending from 1789. It's the earliest of six unratified amendments. It would have mandated that the number of house representatives increase with population.
xVYZb TIL Both Mozart and Michael Jackson were born the seventh child in a very musical family. Both missed out on a normal childhood, spending the entire time immersed in a punishing regime of practicing, touring and performing, all imposed by a strict father
BERW TIL a key ingredient in root beer (sassafras root) was found to be carcinogenic and banned in 1960 by the FDA. Artificial versions are now generally used instead