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Today I learned that between 1912 and 1946, ART was an actual olympic sport

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LQjaP TIL Elizabeth Greenhill (1615-1679) and her husband William Greenhill had 39 children together (32 daughters & 7 sons). All were single births save one set of twins, which is unusual as the most common cause of such a large number of children, hyperovulation, typically manifests as multiple births.
yQwy8 TIL Spirit Halloween, which is owned by Spencer's, runs over 1200 locations each year for 4-8 weeks. They spend the rest of the year scouting empty locations for the next Halloween season
wxJ8 TIL that the English word “taboo” comes from the Polynesian word “tapu”, which means too sacred to touch and therefore off limits
mxjyp TIL The state fish of Hawaii is the HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUA'A, which is a form of trigger fish. It is actually not too hard to pronounce if you notice the repetition. HUMU - HUMU - NUKU - NUKU - APUA'A.
jNnZM TIL that the pigment Prussian Blue, used extensively in "Starry Night" and "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", was first synthesized by cooking blood with potash.