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TIL: You can Grow a Black Diamond from a Dogs Ashes

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ep6Zb TIL That in the victorian era, corsets were not worn crushingly tight, but merely snug, and a lot of what we see is heavily altered
ErBp TIL Beauty & the Beast may be based on a true story about a man (Petrus Gonsalvus) with an excessive hair disease called hypertrichosis and King Henry II of France had him educated then married off as an experiment
4XElw TIL that some hotel towels have RFID microchips sewn into them to know if you stole them
R7Za8 TIL Graham crackers were invented to help curb masterbation
OGvQa TIL ice cream doesn't melt because ice disappears, but because melting ice releases water that dilute the fat and the fat itself melts at higher temps, both breaking the fat bubble network that holds ice cream together