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TIL Morning Star is not just your planet Venus pretending to be a star, or an investment platform, it's also a brutal medieval weapon consisting of a spiked head mounted on a shaft

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XE0br TIL In 2013, a Pizza Hut GM Stood Up and Refused to Force His Employees to Work Thanksgiving, Believing They Should Get to Spend Time With Family Instead.
pE6A TIL that a financial advisor in California suspected that a colleague was ejaculating in her drink bottle after noticing a strange taste, and had her boyfriend ejaculate into a water bottle to confirm her suspicions. The colleague was fired and charged with assault.
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
9nDD TIL Scientists at UCLA noticed that “time and time again” people suffered their first experience with anxiety or depression right after stomach illnesses. They did brain scans after patients ate probiotics, and found that stomach bacteria actually directly affected connectivity of the brain.
KVAR TIL The first flower bloomed around the time the last dinosaur died.