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TIL in the Chinese Manchu tribe mothers give their children blowjobs as a sign of affection

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xV7GB TIL English sweating sickness, which caused profuse sweating and sometimes led to a rapid death, remains a mystery more than five centuries later. After raging for more than 60 years, the last major outbreak of the disease in England was recorded in 1551. Then the "English sweat" simply vanished.
N7OXJ TIL of the Lighthouse of Maracaibo; a weather system appearing in Venezuela approximately half the year which results in near-continuous lightning for ten hours a day.
gr9vb TIL Today I learned that bears produce a fecal plug, to stop excrements when they’re hibernating.
OJG1 TIL nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even overtly sexual.
9wwn6 TIL Japan's current imperial dynasty is the oldest in the world, spanning 126 emperors, more than 2500 years and was founded in the year 660 BCE by Jimmu Tenno, son of goddess Amaterasu