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TIL There is a small Indian tribe called the Anal People that engage in animal sacrifice and have a passion for...uh...let's call it "caves"

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LkDPd TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.
5YpbD TIL that use of the word "road" for a fixed land route started at the end of the 16th century, with Shakespeare the first known user. Because of that, there are no roads in the "City of London" (London's medieval core): all the ways there had been named before the word came into the English language
LkeRd TIL the famous horror genre actor Vincent Price is a direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in Colonial Massachusetts.
Bgw8K TIL the last time a supernova (a powerful and luminous explosion of a star) was visible with the naked eye was in 1604. Known as "Kepler's Supernova", it was so bright it was visible during the day for a period of three weeks.
X0Y1E TIL that in the 1890s, the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts was overrun with prairie dogs