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TIL that women of the French royalty were required to give birth in public. Sometimes those births had scores of witnesses

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eJyg TIL that when famed reclusive author Thomas Pynchon appeared as himself on The Simpsons, he refused to speak one of the lines in which he was supposed to call Homer a “fat ass,” arguing he couldn’t possibly say anything bad about his “role model”
gmV4 TIL that over 90 people volunteered to die in Operation Crossroads, the Navy’s first atomic test in the Bikini Atoll, including geriatrics, the suicidal, and one death-row inmate. All were, of course, refused.
nybB TIL that Futurama has had four designated series finales, due to the recurringly uncertain future of the series. “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings”, “Into the Wild Green Yonder (Part 4)”, “Overclockwise”, and “Meanwhile” have all been written to serve as a final episode for the show.
ZpWRG TIL egg price inflation went from just over 4% in 2021 to over 32% in 2022 as one of the highest inflations since 1935
4X5o6 TIL: In 400BC, the Persians invented a way to make ice in the desert using evaporation cooling