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TIL about Tthongsul. It's a Korean rice wine made out of fermented feces.

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x6XOB TIL about Jane Wallis Burrell, the first CIA agent to die in service of the agency. She died on a runway in France in 1948 just 110 days after the Agency’s creation. She does not have a star on the memorial wall, as she did not qualify as the plane was commercially flown.
nNGW TIL that Queen Victoria hated being pregnant, viewed breast-feeding with disgust, and thought newborn babies were ugly.
5Y1lQ TIL Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) is both the most expensive European and independent film ever made.
5YZEk TIL Tea clippers used to race to be the first to deliver their cargo, the price being to sell their cargo at a premium
neajW TIL of Charlotte Reid, the first woman to wear pants to Congress (1969). Women were forbidden to wear pants onto the floor until 1993