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8ajBX TIL that when Medieval monks would fast for religious reasons they would sometimes drink lots of beer instead of eating food, since drinking did not count as "food".
4kLdo TIL in the United States, all sheep meat can be marketed as "lamb", regardless of the age of the animal.
awwaZ TIL the tiger blankets I've seen at the homes of multiple Mexican families are called San Marcos (and they have patterns other than tiger)
5VrOr TIL that women are traditionally prohibited from entering a sumo ring. This tradition is so strictly enforced that in 2018 two women were asked to leave the ring even though they were preforming CPR on a man who collapsed in one.
rNwby TIL the upper survival time limit of properly stored seeds remains unknown. The oldest viable seed that has grown into a full plant was an about 2,000 years old Judean date palm seed