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TIL about The Public Universal Friend; a genderless American Quaker who preached in the late 1700s.

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pOMN TIL that holes in Swiss cheese are actually called ‘eyes’. Swiss cheese without eyes is known as 'blind’.
pYNZ8 TIL accidental poisoning by Ratol paste, a highly toxic rodenticide containing yellow phosphorus which can cause organ failure and death, is very common in India because people mistake it for toothpaste.
rRmW4 TIL researchers from Texas State University left a human corpse on a 26-acre woodland site to study how human bodies decompose in the wild. They ended up capturing the first image of a deer eating human remains.
51pQ TIL that in China it’s disrespectful to name your children after your relatives because you’ll spend much of your life talking down to a child with the same name as someone you should be respecting.
6961w TIL last year a news team ordered aluminum pots from seven different Amazon and Etsy retailers and found measurably dangerous amounts of lead in six of them