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TIL The communion bread market has been cornered, outcompeting nuns at monasteries

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9wxQp TIL that Jumbo the Elephant from PT Barnum's circus died while trying to save a midget from being run over by a train. Also, he wasn't called "Jumbo" because he was big but the other way around: big things are called "jumbo" because of him.
W7g4o TIL the first steam engine, known as the 'Aeolipile,' was invented in the 1st century AD by the Hero of Alexandria, a Greek-Egyptian mathematician and engineer, in Alexandria, Egypt
ANJBa TIL the "taste bud mapping" we learned in school has been discredited for years and is still a mystery.
61Y8 TIL In the late 70’s, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness in Sweden, Swedes called in sick for work with a case of “feeling a bit homosexual”
MY6V TIL Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin and Pierce Brosnan have all narrated Thomas the Tank Engine.