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TIL in the most famous account of her birth, Aphrodite was created when the titan Kronos castrated his father, Uranus. When the genitals fell into the sea, Aphrodite was born. This would also make her the oldest of the Gods and Goddesses.

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kOoXW TIL Hormel's "Spam" is so popular in Hawaii it has debuted it's "Portugese Sausage", "Black Pepper", and "Teriyaki" flavors at the Waikiki Spam Jam, an annual Honolulu street festival devoted to spam. "Honey Spam", "Spam and Bacon", and "Hot and Spicy Spam" are only available in Hawaii.
K0OG TIL In Tibet they do not cremate the dead or bury them, instead they cut the bodies and let predatory birds devour them.
v1Yxx TIL of the 'Centre of the Universe' in Tulsa- If you stand in the middle of the circle and make a noise, the sound is echoed back several times louder than it was made. Those outside the circle hear the same sound but distorted.
x65mB TIL that a moose will swim in water to eat the aquatic vegetation. Though they prefer shallow water, there was an eyewitness account of a moose diving at 18 feet of water to eat just the vegetation.
ANaNx TIL Now That's Beautiful Like Earth, Saturn gets auroras at its poles. They're invisible to the unaided human eye, but the Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of them using infrared and ultraviolet imaging tech.