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TIL that Taylor Swift has a millipede named in her honor

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pV0p TIL of the Coconut Religion, which advocated only eating coconut and only drinking coconut milk
NXnke TIL of the Bal des Ardents, a masquerade ball in which the king and some noble dancers dressed in wild man costumes and accidentally got set on fire by the king's drunk brother. The only dancers who survived are one who jumped into a washtub and the king, after a duchess threw her skirt over him.
Z8vEG TIL: Captain Cook experimentally, & successfully, used sauerkraut, fermented cabbage, to combat scurvy in his crew, caused by a lack of vitamin C due to poor ship diets on long sea voyages
kOyne TIL that one millilitre of sea water can contain up to ten million virus particles. That volume of sea water may also contain a million bacteria whereas sea sediment and soil can contain up to a billion virus particles per cubic centimetre.
wdXW TIL that Brad Pitt voluntarily went to a dentist to have his front teeth chipped for the role of Tyler Durden in Fight Club. His teeth were fixed after he finished making the movie.