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TIL “eye of newt” in Macbeth is actually just an archaic term for mustard seed

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wodA6 TIL the revolutionaries behind the 1817 Pernambucan revolt in Brazil planned to bust out Napoleon from his exile on Saint Helena Island and bring him to South America
d8NnZ TIL blood pressure has a daily pattern with its highest point usually in the afternoon and the lowest point at night.
EmMw TIL the original War on Christmas was waged in New England during the early days of America. Due to Puritan beliefs of the region, Christmas was illegal in the mid 16 hundreds because it espoused “Pagan” traditions. It still remained culturally taboo until the 1870’s.
Wkbbo TIL in a passage referring to people with unique and special abillities, St Augustine, the father of western christianity, praises flatulists: people with such control over their bowels they can produce music with their farts
v1lJ4 TIL of gyotaku, the Japanese art of “fish-printing” where actual fish are prepped and painted with ink, then pressed on to paper. It originated as a way for fishermen to record their catches and is still practised today.