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TIL Babylonians believed that an eclipse foretold the death of their ruler, leading them to use these predictions to put kingly protections in place. During the period of time that lunar or solar eclipses might strike, the king would be replaced with a substitute.

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wLb81 TIL actually we don’t know the color of dinosaurs!
Y7pWA TIL about Lisan Al-Din Ibn Al-Khatib, an Andalusian polymath who proposed the idea of transmissible diseases, and more precisely that the Bubonic Plague was transmitted from person to person, centuries before Louis Pasteur and John Snow
ANox TIL In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered “cruel and unusual punishment, like making people eat rats”.
5VeWR TIL "breatharians" have killed several people since the 1980s through starvation / dehydration
KObLa TIL The band ‘Tool’ have a “secret album” called “The Holy Gift.” If you listen to their album “Lateralus” in a different order of tracks, the songs flow into each other even better, and and they make different musical themes from the original.