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TIL Charles Darwin referred to blushing as “the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”

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5kvk TIL Target’s AI figured out a teenage girl was pregnant, before her dad did; the AI even predicted her due date and sent her coupons of baby stuffs
6pWl TIL In c. 552 two Christian monks, after learning Chinese silkworm cultivation, smuggled silkworm eggs on behalf of Byzantine emperor Justinian, resulting in the Empire’s monopoly over the European silk market and forming the foundations of its economy for the next 650 years (until its demise).
N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.
b9NLQ TIL about Nutraloaf, a meat loaf found in prisons that is so bland that a court ruled that serving it to misbehaving prisoners is a "cruel and unsual punishment"
R5Drl TIL Jaguar Cars were known as SS Cars until 1945, after which they changed their name for obvious reasons