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TIL When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they tweeted it from an iPhone.

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BrRkr TIL: The notion of a “tongue map” for different tastes is a myth. Scientists have found that specialist brain cells handle different tastes.
yQAm8 TIL of Herman Perry, an African-American WWII soldier who killed an officer and escaped into the Burmese jungle. Black soldiers were treated harshly and he had already been confined before. He won over and lived with a Naga tribe before he was found, then escaped again, then caught again and hung.
ep4VL TIL: Martin Luther King paid the bill for Julia Roberts’ birth
Zjev TIL that nine-banded armadillos consistently give birth to identical quadruplets. Only one egg is ovulated and then the embryo splits four ways.
P60e TIL ‘medieval’ chastity belts are a myth