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TIL How Vegan Leather Is Made From Mangoes

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AWx4 TIL that Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis dropped the mortality rate for childbirth from 12% to 2% after he insisted doctors wash their hands in between handling cadavers and delivering babies.
ADmRx TIL about four museums that focus solely on cats: one in Malaysia; one in the Netherlands, one in Lithuania, and one in the US. There's also a museum in the US dedicated to Maneki Neko (Lucky Cat) statues.
RXl8 TIL rabbits were first domesticated by French Monks who considered baby rabbits to be fish and therefor edible during lent.
D1OkP TIL about Arthur John Priest, a "fireman" who survived the sinking of the Titanic...and FIVE OTHER disasters at sea before and after.
R7lZ8 TIL The oldest recorded "your mom" joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet in 1976. The text read: “...of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it?” There was no response on the tablet.