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TIL in Japanese Mythology, the sun goddess once shut herself in a cave because another god was being a dick to her, and was lured out because of another goddess dancing topless on a table.

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gla9 TIL while shooting “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” Eli Wallach mistakenly drank acid left next to his drink, was accidentally hanged by a faulty stunt rope, nearly decapitated by a train passing overhead, and left on a horse with his hands tied behind his back when it panicked and ran away.
VBELp TIL that a mild fever can actually be helpful - it’s your body’s way of trying to kill the virus/bacteria that’s infecting you by heat
nWoyY TIL the microstate of Andorra gets visited by an amount of tourists equal to its population every three days on average.
X0GvX TIL: The bodies of two women were discovered over a year after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, but they were both actually victims of murder prior to the eruption whose bodies were hidden to the debris and ash.
Jwbj TIL that it is possible to create a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below by grafting a tomato plant stem onto a potato plant stalk (made possible by both being in the same family of plants known as “nightshades”).