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TIL that the Gulf of Mexico is supposedly now “The gulf of USA” 😐- super late to this

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78pkr TIL The star Betelgeuse has been recorded since Chinese antiquity, with notes of the star then being yellow, by the time of Ptolemy it was orange, and now red. The star is the tenth brightest in the sky and expected to go supernova in the next 100,000 years.
WKvX TIL that in 2013, 9 American babies were named ‘Cheese’
P1xWg TIL that in England, suicide was considered a felony "punished at common law by burial in the public highway with a stake driven through his body." Attempted suicide was a misdemeanor.
VM5X4 TIL: Horses only have one toe on each foot
Y7nWv TIL that the Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany is the oldest public housing complex in the world, being founded all the way back to the 1510s.