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TIL Asbestos was commonly used to make false relics as the fire resistance was seen as miraculous. Additionally Charlemagne allegedly had an asbestos tablecloth he threw into fires to impress guests.

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JY0ll TIL iguanas go into shock, drop from trees and lay there until the temperature rises enough to give them energy again.
y8xJ TIL Sacha Baron Cohen was nominated for an award in Kazakhstan for his role in Borat. According to the president , “He had raised the profile of the country to a level once thought impossible”.
9Y9aX TIL Japanese Gen. Kuribayashi knew he was facing unsurmountable odds during the invasion of Iwo Jima. He forbade standard Japanese banzai charges, leading an American general to say he was "one smart bastard." At the end, he inflicted 26k American casualties while fighting with "emaciated men."
YpwGr TIL Florentine society during Renaissance tacitly accepted male homosexuality but had a rigid rule: passive/receptive partner must be under 20 years of age while active partner had to be older (20s or early 30s). Reversing those roles was considered shocking and a deviation from the “natural order.”
AD4v4 TIL about the Carrington Event which destroyed huge parts of the world's electrical system at the time.