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TIL Bruno Mars’ real name is Peter Hernandez

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VMww0 TIL that many countries used "Immurement" as a form of punishment, where the victim was locked in a box and left to starve to death. The latest usage was in 1914, where a Mongolian woman left in a wooden crate died of dehydration.
XErEr TIL that the effects of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 were so widespread that sheep in Wales had to be put under control measures, which included measuring their radioactivity before sales. This control was finally lifted in 2012, 26 years after the disaster.
5bmr TIL that Dalmatians are traditional fire house mascots because they get along with horses.
9Y5Xp TIL the majority of pearls come not from wild mollusks, but from farms where grafts are inserted into mollusks as a base for the formation of these "cultured" pearls.
rRGW TIL that almost all carrots used to be purple and it wasn’t until the 17th century that most of them became orange.