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TIL that there is a name for when people are cousins through both parents, it is "double cousins".

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Jxg8 TIL that for the first time part of a dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in amber with the finding of a tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur
p8lbZ TIL “Pop goes the Weasel” is about booze. Pop is English slang for pawning and weasel is for a suit. The Eagle was a London pub. “Up and down the city road, in and out of The Eagle, that’s the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel” means drinking until you need to pawn things to buy more booze.
ADwna TIL that asbestos can be found in rocks and soil all over the world and has been used for over 4,500 years by our ancestors for various purposes. But the large scale asbestos industry started with the mining of asbestos in Quebec, Canada in the 1870's.
ReXj TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
KO5j4 TIL during the filming of "Trading Places", Aykroyd's and Murphy's presence on the floor distracted the active traders and over $6 billion of trading had to be halted