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TIL legendary music producers Pharrell and Timbaland are cousins

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VB57Z TIL that King Richard the Lionheart is buried in France. His heart is in Rouen in Normandy, his entrails in Châlus, and the rest of his body at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou.
W7BxX TIL that there is a cat version of HIV called FIV
OG0W4 TIL the force needed to use an English longbow effectively means that skeletons of longbowmen surviving from the period often show enlarged left arms and bone spurs in the arms and shoulders
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”
7rLEL TIL that chronic hiccups (lasting 2 days to a month) are a thing