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TIL In Ancient Sparta boys were punished for not answering questions Briefly and Wittily enough

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b6x8E TIL of Juliana the Great Dane, who saved her family's lives twice and earned two Blue Cross Medals. First by urinating on an incendiary bomb that landed in the family's home during WW2, and the second by alerting the family when their shoe shop had caught fire
6MYl TIL that Texas cancelled its last meal program after an inmate ordered two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a large bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream, and a slab of peanut butter fudge and didn’t eat any of it.
dDrA7 til immune cells will use their DNA to form nets to capture and kill pathogens killing themselves in the process, a trait found in all multicellular life.
ADN8n TIL modern day Samaritans follow Samaritanism which they believe to be the original, unchanged version of Judaism.
5VVKn TIL the color orange was named after the fruit orange, and not vice versa. Prior to its naming, it was referred to as yellow-red (ġeolurēad).