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TIL Black Couturier Ann Lowe Designed Jackie Kennedy's Wedding Dress

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vPy8K TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.
e9Kb TIL that in one of the “Apocrypha” scriptures that was part of the New Testament and taught by the Church until 1563, Paul the Apostle persuaded God to give everyone in Hell a relaxing day off every Sunday, even going so far as cooling up the weather
8a5MP Today I learned that ceiling fans can make you feel cooler OR warmer, depending on which direction the blades are spinning.
VMe9m TIL about Yemen's Well of Barhout, known as the "Well of Hell", which is 100 feet wide and 328-820 feet deep. Foul smells emanate from the well, and folklore says it served as a prison for demons.
QJWDL TIL A Catholic Priest, Georges Lemaître, was first to propose what became known as the Big Bang theory. The origin of the universe, which he called his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg." And was first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law.