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TIL European food used to be spicy like Indian food

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0drGL TIL that a urinal is a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination only.
1DmD TIL that Richard Nixon sabotaged Vietnam peace talks to give himself a better chance in the 1968 U.S. Presidential election, prolonging the war by 5 years.
loE8a TIL Kharai Camels in Kutch are one of the few camel breeds that can swim. They feed off marine mangroves and in turn help regenerate the mangrove forests. Only 5000 camels are left now!
W80d TIL that the lowland gorilla’s scientific name is actually “Gorilla gorilla gorilla”.
9wbxm TIL that in 1967, radio astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star emitting precise radio pulses. Initially it was thought to be a potential signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, so it was named LGM-1 (short for Little Green Men).