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TIL Beaver Moon: Full Moon in November 2023
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TIL there was a roman emperor who had been reported to be “delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles”, regularly wearing makeup and offering a vast sum of money to a physician capable of giving him a sex change
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TIL Ketchup has a past that dates back to imperial China, where it was made with fish entrails, meat byproducts and soybeans. It wasn't until 1812 that a tomato-based ketchup was invented.
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TIL Scientists haven’t excavated the tomb of China’s first emperor because they are not allowed to, and because it is (or was) surrounded by a “river of mercury”
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TIL that “muskeg”, very damp soil, is why northern Ontario is almost uninhabited. Sometimes 100 feet deep or more, unless completely cleared it freezes and buckles construction in winter, and swallows anything left (locomotives, construction equipment, moose, etc.) when it thaws in the spring.
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TIL that, 49 million years ago, moss rapidly transformed the earth from 'greenhouse earth' to 'icehouse earth' that we live in today - changing c02 from 3,000 ppm to 500 ppm.