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TIL Almond milk was a popular medieval food item

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5okp TIL After the American Civil War, some 7,000 Confederates set sail for Brazil. Their Dixie-loving descendants represent one of the most curious cultures in the modern world.
Me1LV TIL that it is illegal to feed or touch seals in the wild, even if it is believed a seal pup has been abandoned. Well-meaning people have illegally picked up seal pups in Oregon and Washington thinking they were abandoned or needed help, but that interference ultimately resulted in two deaths.
WvLd TIL We only know of the story Beowulf from a single manuscript, at one point nearly lost in a fire.
K19w TIL that the state of Prussia technically existed until 1947.
N7WdJ TIL of Rosalind Franklin, a X-ray crystallographer whose discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA went uncredited for years is now beginning to finally get her due credit.