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TIL Stilton blue cheese is known to frequently cause odd, vivid dreams

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WGoN TIL that the at-sign, @, is not a modern invention. It has been found on documents as old as 1345.
aljJ TIL the Sun loses about 5.5 million tonnes of mass every second. When the sun stops shining in 5 billion years it will have lost about 0.034% of its current mass.
bxe0 TIL Bruce Banner’s name was changed to David for The Incredible Hulk television series because “Bruce sounded gay.”
e0Qyn TIL that Turtle Island is a name for North America used by some Indigenous and First Nations people and by some Indigenous rights activists, based on the Iroquois belief that the earth is supported on the back of a gigantic turtle called Hah-nu-nah
dXy8 TIL gonorrhea is nicknamed “The Clap” because of an old method for treatment, “that used to clear the blockage in the urethra from gonorrhea pus, where the penis would be ‘clapped’ on both sides at the same time.”