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TIL that Panama hats may take a master weaver up to 8 months to produce, at a price of $200. The best hats can sell outside of Ecuador for 50x what the weaver is paid

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698LZ TIL about Tarrare, a French spy and Performer who had such an appetite he would eat live cats and puppies, cadavers from morgues and was even suspected of kidnapping and eating a baby. He would also eat from heaps of dung in the street and as a spy, the entire army's rations.
QJoje TIL that astrophysicists use the word "spaghettification" to describe what happens to matter that is dropped through a black hole.
QkA9 TIL that when a cat died in Ancient Egypt, their human family would go into a deep mourning and shave their eyebrows.
R7ya6 TIL The Fast and the Furious (2001) is not the first film about criminals and racing with the name "The Fast and the Furious".
wL817 TIL that fist-bumping was made popular in the Vietnam War by black soldiers as a modified form of the black power salute.