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TIL if people had herbivorous pets instead of dogs and cats, 6.9 billion animal lives would be spared from slaughter every year

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V81B TIL The Moon is masculine in Hindu mythology, has 27 wives, 1 pair of in-laws, and an adulterous relationship and a child with Jupiter’s only wife.
v1rw7 TIL that the Victorians had a machine for making fresh ice cream in under 10 minutes, patented by the 'Queen of Ices' in 1885
yREw TIL when composer Frédéric Chopin was on his death bed he asked that when he died his body be cut open and the heart removed to be buried in his homeland of Poland. Upon his death, his sister smuggled the heart out of France, delivering it to the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.
wBRW TIL “Jacuzzi” is actually a brand of hot tubs, and people use it the same way Q-tips are used for cotton swabs
GYb8G Today I learned that there was a species of humans that were extremely short, named Homo floresiensis, and nicknamed 'hobbit'. They were found on the island of Flores, Indonesia, and the remains of a skeleton found tell us that they were around 1.1m tall.