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0wV5R TIL that for decades Chinese villagers consumed dinosaur fossils as traditional medicine. They believed these 'dragon bones' would help children with dizziness and cramps.
P1WOZ TIL Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, changed the spelling of his last name from Remark to recognize his French ancestors and also because he wanted to distance himself from his earlier book, The Dream Room.
k84E TIL Pizza Hut once made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. They paid the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza (and make a commercial from it).
JNY1 TIL there’s a food in China called ‘virgin boy eggs’ which are eggs soaked in the urine of school aged boys.
j6yON TIL that "gladiatrixes" fought to the death in ancient Rome.