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TIL that the Catholic Church allows eating beaver meat during lent.

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8Zpb TIL of Black soup a standard meal for Spartan warriors made from boiled pigs’ legs, blood, salt & vinegar - after tasting it one commentator remarked “Now I know why the Spartans do not fear death”
G6nN TIL the world’s biggest spider is the “Goliath Birdeater” has a leg span the size of a child’s forearm, weights as much as a puppy, can live for 25 years and has fangs strong enough to pierce skulls.
x6ro5 TIL Ancient Greeks did not consider "1" to be a number, and the idea of doing so would be controversial for centuries afterwards.
6ErQQ TIL of the “Buckskin Girl” murdered 40 years ago, and unable to be identified but named after her coat. In 2017 an unrefrigerated lab vial of her blood was successfully DNA analysed. Her mother was located still living in the same house, refusing to move or change phone numbers hoping for her return
awZmy TIL that Ben Sliney, former FAA National Operations Manager, made the choice to ground all planes in US airspace on his first day on the job, September 11, 2001.