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TIL Christmas ham, originally a pagan tradition, was endorsed by the Catholic Church as a test of truthful conversion from Judaism.

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9lZG TIL a Japanese fishing boat sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a live cow from 30,000 feet.
a8x89 TIL Manute Bol may have invented the phrase "My Bad"
9YNn6 TIL Wilson won the Critics’ Choice Award “Best Inanimate Object” for his role in Cast Away
mLvv TIL: Victorian era women wore utility belts where they kept all their handy tools. It was called a chatelaine, and was the woman’s equivalent of a Swiss army knife, so to speak.
6EMoY TIL that pregnancy tests actually existed 3,500 years in Ancient Egypt! It even predicted the gender! Women would urinate on two bags; one filled with wheat and the other barley. If they grew, it means they're pregnant! If the wheat grew faster it's a girl. If the barley did, then it's a boy.