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TIL that butterfly pea flowers, used as ornamental plants and to colour gins like Empress 1908, is scientifically named Clitoria ternatea because it resembles a human vulva.

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PBVE TIL Early movie theaters in Japan hired benshi, storytellers who sat next to the screen and narrated silent movies. They were descendants of kabuki jōruri, kōdan storytellers, and other forms of oral storytelling. With the advent of sound in the early 1930s, the benshi gradually disappeared.
mPLM TIL since the end of WW2, the US had a military doctrine that required it to be able to fight two wars, on two fronts, at the same time
JjBB TIL Salvador Dali would avoid paying tabs by drawing on checks. The drawing would be too valuable to cash the check.
YpAmB TIL That Chinese 20 something superstar vlogger described as a “cute goddess” by China’s Global Times and is “worshipped” on the Douyu platform by her 100,000 followers, is not the glamorous young woman in the videos but actually a 58yr old using filters.
gpX9 TIL of Barnes Wallis, who in WWII not only invented the “bouncing bomb” which bounces on water to a target, but also the earthquake bomb which creates a 3.6 mag earthquake and was the largest non-nuclear bomb in the war.