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TIL that in Ancient Greece, they used pottery shards to wipe their ass after a dump. Sometimes these pottery fragments would be inscribed with the name of an enemy before being used.

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Y7mOG TIL that the Seminole Tribe did not exist prior to the 1700s. It was formed in Spanish Florida by members of other tribes who were displaced out of the English colonies by settlers. Florida's original indigenous population was extinct by then from disease and enslavement brought by the Spanish.
BrByk TIL that cellulite is more of a secondary sexual characteristic than a condition, almost all adult women have it, and there's no healthy or reasonable way to get rid of it
PYEWe TIL Kangaroos have tremendous endurance. In other animals metabolic rate increases with speed, but it levels off once Kangaroos start hopping due to the efficiency of elastic recoil.
ldbA TIL there are more Norwegians in America than there are in Norway
PYQQV TIL that the phrase 'you can't have your cake and eat it too" is backwards from the original and correct expression, 'you can't eat your cake and have it too'