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TIL deer antlers are “the fastest growing structures in the animal kingdom”

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p8bgN TIL about "Princess Caraboo", an impostor who feigned being a princess from a far off island and fooled an entire British town before being found out after a few months.
6ggl TIL: The producer of the James Bond movies is a woman. She casts Bond, his girls and decides on the stories. Barbara Broccoli is in business for 30 years leading the most successful cinema franchise.
OoB41 TIL at the start of the Civil War the Union issued "essence of coffee," a mix of boiled coffee, milk, and sugar that was reconstituted with water, as a time saving measure. The soldiers refused to drink it, and whole roasted coffee beans were again issued
Wke6B TIL the clavicle (aka the collar bone) is the most commonly fractured bone.
R7Jj TIL the Yucatan peninsula is named after the Mayan phrase meaning, “I don’t understand what you’re saying.” in response to the Spaniards asking where they were.