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pYRZ4 TIL that the condition of lacking one or more limbs is called Amelia.
4P7a TIL that due to its aquatic habitat and behavior, the Catholic Church officially categorized the Beaver as a type of fish, making it acceptable to eat on Good Friday and throughout Lent. This ruling was later extended to the Capybara and muskrat as well.
lonoA TIL Princess Olga of Kiev (a saint in the Catholic Church) was courted by the same tribe that killed her husband & proceeded to bury the tribe's suiters alive, burned the tribe's best warriors alive, slaughtered around 5,000 tribesmen during a celebration and burned their capital to the ground.
kL5e TIL that the company who created the Etch A Sketch was about to go bankrupt, right before they signed a deal with Pixar to have their product shown in Toy Story in 1995. The scene was only 12 seconds long, but it gave the company a 20% sales increase that saved the company.
Zp86o TIL that Ford Heights, IL was renamed in an attempt to persuade the nearby Ford plant to be within their corporate limits, but the plant was incorporated into an adjacent city (Chicago Heights) instead.