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TIL that in the past many religions had “Sacred prostitutes” that would engage in sexual intercourse for rituals.

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0weA1 TIL that cosmic dust, micro-meteor remnants from the birth of our solar system, falls all over the world at a rate of 4,000 tons annually. We literally eat it, inhale it and live in it every day.
Y7gMd TIL in 2014, John Wick, then known as Scorn, had no distributor as late as 2 months before its release and came very close to going direct-to-DVD.
7rQmP TIL that wombats can run at a speed of 40km/h, 3km/h faster than Usain Bolt's average running speed during his world record. They also make cubic dung, which is thought to be so they can mark their territory without the dung rolling away
VBJAQ TIL there are no Burger Kings in Australia thanks to a single restaurant already having the name so they chose Hungry Jack's instead
7rdnM TIL about “spreading depolarization”, a scientific phenomena where the human brain continues to emit brain waves after the heart stops, for several minutes even. When Anne Boleyn was beheaded her detached head reportedly tried to talk.