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TIL that “duckies” (“duckys”) was a medieval English slang term for a woman’s breasts, used by (among others) Henry VIII in letters to Anne Boleyn.

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GAl8N TIL Almost every culture on Earth has a similar myth about the Pleiades star cluster, and it's probably because that myth is 100,000 years old, when there were 7, not 6, stars visible to the naked eye.
BJYW TIL: Discovery’s “Sons of Guns” Star and former owner of Red Jacket is in Jail over child molestation charges, and rape of his own daughter.
Me8E7 TIL about Barbie's younger sister, the "Growing Up Skipper" edition. Rotating her left arm made the doll develop breasts and get taller, turning it again made her younger.
MeXXK TIL Michael Jordan’s house has been on the market for four years without a buyer
nWxQd TIL about The Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed as a euthanasia device to kill its passengers. The concept was conceived in 2010 and made into a scale model by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who ha