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TIL Queen guitarist Brian May is an astrophysicist and member of the NASA team that interprets data from Pluto.

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5Y7Rp TIL There is a negative correlation between a man's wealth and his breast size preferences.
epnLk TIL that the Prohibition Party still exists, has run a candidate for president in every US election since 1872, and is thus the longest-lived political party in the US after the Republicans and Democrats
oVGo TIL of the ‘Japanese Smoking Paradox’ where Japanese smokers smoke more than US/European males but have much lower lung cancer rates and nobody is entirely sure why.
b6p1N TIL Injera is a thin, soft fermented baked Ethiopian food made of teff flour using two rounds of complex fermentation process for 24 to 96 hours. It involves making absit first, or fermenting dough leftover after waste water is removed
EgvNW TIL that in 1691, a man was called to testify as a witness to robbery and told the court that God turned him into a werewolf so he could raid Hell and fight the demons there. The judges took his claim seriously and banished him from Livonia for sorcery.