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TIL That Ancient Egyptians didn't name their cats individually like dogs, instead they were all called by the Ancient Egyptian equivalent of "meow", or "Miu", an onomatopoetic reference to the sound that cats make.

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v1M74 TIL that the reason why we clink our glasses and say cheers originated from the medieval ages, it was quite popular to poison your enemies drink. Therefore, men would clank their cups together hard and spill each other’s cups ensuring the man you were drinking with was not poisoning you.
9a7p TIL in 2013 Europe was hit by a horse meat scandal, in which 300 tons of horse meat was found throughout the EU food supply labeled as beef. The source was traced to a Romanian slaughterhouse, who sold it as horse meat to a chain of Cyprus, Dutch, and Irish resellers who mislabeled it.
wR07 TIL On this day in history Ozzy Osborne bought 3 rounds of drinks for everyone on a plane returning from spring break and sang “Crazy Train” over the PA system.
AN7xn TIL that the country Bosnia and Herzegovina does, as the name may suggest, consist of two separate autonomous entities. However they are "The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" and "Republika Srpska" and this is entirely coincidental.
nLoo TIL there is an entire website dedicated to convincing people that dihydrogen monoxide (water) is a dangerous chemical being covered up by the government.