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TIL in the 16th century the Pope declared Capybara’s as fish, so his followers could eat it, this stands to this day

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0wybv TIL that Patrick Star and Gary are cousins
ygMe TIL that drowning in fresh water is caused by a different mechanism than drowning in salt water. Fresh water drowning causes cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation, while salt water drowning causes cardiac arrest due to increased blood viscosity and workload on the heart.
RKGl TIL during pre-Civil War America, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters. About 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves—as opposed to less than 4.8 percent of southern whites, and dramatically more than the 1.4 percent of all white Americans who owned slaves.
D1NrP TIL that two MIT Scientists successfully planted a false memory into a mouse (Mouseception). When set in a certain box, the mouse freezes in terror, recalling that it receives a shock in this box, when this never happened. This research may lead to new treatments for Depression or Alzheimer's, etc.
0wZE1 TIL Impalement (Execution by a slowly sliding down a pole inserted through the rectum or vagina over the course of days) was used as recently as the Armenian Genocide (~1915) by The Young Turks