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Today I learned that the duchess of York was banned from the royal house for letting a man suck her toes

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b6Y00 TIL the “chain fountain” effect where a chain of beads tumbling out of a jar rises up is also called the “Mould effect” after Steve Mould’s 2013 YouTube video brought widespread public attention to the phenomenon, and Cambridge academics published a paper on it .
JYAlQ TIL cats can fit through small spaces because they have no collarbones. Essentially, any given space that can fit the cat's head, is big enough for the cat's entire body to fit.
rRPKw TIL about the Republic of Vermont, an independent republic that lasted from 1777 to 1791, which, after breaking away from Quebec, fought with the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War, and was admitted to the union as a counterweight to the slave state of Kentucky.
5XkR TIL that octopuses are so intelligent, they’ve been known to escape their aquariums and crawl into others in search of food. They’ve even boarded fishing boats and opened holds to eat crabs.
b9Ka9 TIL that the Hays Office demanded changes to the 1934 film Dr. Monica because it included dialogue about the potential dangers of childbirth