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TIL that tea is either a derivative of cha or chay in over 65 languages

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JO7v TIL whilst being burnt alive at the stake in 1556 a woman gave birth to a live baby who the executioner then threw back into the flames.
yQAm8 TIL of Herman Perry, an African-American WWII soldier who killed an officer and escaped into the Burmese jungle. Black soldiers were treated harshly and he had already been confined before. He won over and lived with a Naga tribe before he was found, then escaped again, then caught again and hung.
5VelD TIL In the United States over 24 billion eggs are broken per year at egg breaking facilities. Additionally egg membranes are high in collagen and used in dietary supplements.
7815b TIL that in the 1940s Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar drove 200 miles round trip each week to teach a class in the Uni of Chicago. One day he insisted on driving to teach the class despite a heavy snowstorm. He ended up teaching a class of only two that day, both of whom went on to win a Nobel Prize.
yQKal TIL Mr. Rogers was a lifelong vegetarian because he didn't "want to eat anything that has a mother"