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TIL Of the vegetable lamb of tartary. How northern Europeans explained cotton in the middle ages.

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yVlg8 TIL State-sponsored cannibalism was common during Safavid Persia as a show of loyalty or to terrorize enemies. Ismail I ordered several of his enemies eaten. By the time of Shah Abbas I, there was a corp of soldiers called the Chigiyyin whose job was to eat prisoners raw and alive until they died.
paPZ TIL there’s a website that catalogs people with different accents reading the same story in English… and you can access them for free!
J1MgV TIL Babies have about 30,000 taste buds, while adults have only about 10,000
YpMB7 TIL that when Freud left Austria, he was required to sign a document testifying that he had had every opportunity 'to live and work in full freedom' and had 'not the slightest reason for any complaint'. He signed it, adding a remark of his own: 'I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to anyone.'
jmdp TIL: Halle Berry was the first woman to collect her Worst Actress award in person at the Razzie Awards, saying “I want to thank Warner Bros. for casting me in this piece-of-shit, god-awful movie.”