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TIL that the ornate wooden detailing on houses is referred to as ‘gingerbread’

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ANJX4 TIL that platypuses sweat milk. This is because it doesn't have teats. Milk appears as sweat on a platypus, but it's an aquatic mammal so it doesn't actually sweat at all.
P74Z TIL For the last 30 years EVERY member of Congress has received monthly copies of Hustler Magazine.
Mmjm TIL: Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th moon, has a warm ocean at its southern pole with ongoing hydrothermal activity—the first ever discovered outside of Earth. This is the most life-friendly habitat ever discovered outside of Earth.
e0vv6 TIL The first recorded autopsy was performed in 44 B.C. on Julius Caesar to determine which of the 23 stab wounds he received had killed him. (It was a chest wound that severed his aorta.)
Kj14 TIL after getting into a taxi, Prohibition agent Izzy Einstein asked the driver where he could find some alcohol, to which the driver offered him a bottle of whiskey, resulting in an arrest after 35 seconds.