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TIL humans have kneecaps in their hands and feet (sesamoid bones)

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4rJN TIL perfume is located at the front of department stores in part because department-store pioneer Harry Selfridge placed his there to mask the odors of manure and exhaust from the street.
mxk9E TIL that Queen Anne of England was pregnant 17 times. The first time at the age of eighteen, and the last at the age of thirty-four. She either miscarried or gave birth to stillborn babies. One child died under a year, another at a year and a half, and the oldest died at the age of eleven in 1700.
YpQ6d TIL that donut holes were invented by a 16 yr old sailor named Hanson Gregory. Gregory was tired of eating greasy and undercooked donuts with raw dough on the insides, so he decided to make donuts but with holes in them.
KDdE TIL No matter how scrambled a Rubik’s Cube is, it can be solved in less that 20 turns.
166Zr TIL Beyoncé once went to a vegan restaurant wearing a skinned cow shirt, leather pants and leather heels.