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TIL all snails are hermaphrodites. No wonder they’re never in a rush...

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0YmL TIL that the pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to replace his crew’s hats. They got drunk the previous night and they tossed theirs overboard.
eAGn TIL There is an Israeli policy document prepared in 1996 advocating an aggressive new policy including the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, and the containment of Syria by engaging in proxy warfare and highlighting their possession of “weapons of mass destruction”.
61xX TIL that the Ulfberht swords were so advanced in their time (800-1000 AD), that the same technology didn’t appear again for a 1000 years in Europe.
kJ7E4 TIL tea was one of China’s earliest major exports. In fact, tea bricks were not only a convenient form for storage and transportation but were also used as a medium of exchange along the ancient Tea Horse Road—a trade route where tea was bartered for Tibetan horses.
XEn0j SpaceX astronauts brought a little dinosaur in the rocket.