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TIL the “Love you Forever” children’s book is actually about the author’s “dead babies.”

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e0vXn TIL about Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, who agreed to annul her marriage to Guy de Lusignan to appease the High Court, on the condition that she have free rein to choose her next husband after her coronation. Upon being crowned queen, Sibylla immediately announced that she chose Guy as her husband.
19O7 TIL that despite elephants massive size compared to humans, they are 5 times less likely to die of cancer due to them having at least 40 copies of TP53, a gene that destroys cancer cells before they become a problem, versus 2 in humans.
RLB1 TIL There are grapes shaped like long peppers called, “Witch Finger Grapes”
0wA7R TIL that in 17th-century Poland, wet bread mixed with spider webs was used to cure wounds. It may sound stupid, but it work, as the bread contained fungal spores, including penicillin and naturally produced antibiotic substances.
MeLpK TIL that Phobos, one of the martian moons, is slowly spiraling inward to eventual destruction and Mars will eventually have a ring