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TIL a shark’s heart is under it’s tongue.
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TIL that in 16th century London, a law forbade wife-beating after 9:00pm, but only because the noise disturbed people’s sleep.
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TIL Catholics are forbidden from joining Masonic organizations and those who do are subsequently in a “state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.”
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TIL There is an alternative to Jewish circumcision called “Brit Shalom” — which means “no cutting”. The little boy is welcomed into the world with a ceremony such as having his feet washed. Over 100 rabbis worldwide now officiate at such events.
LRB0
TIL even though the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens is considered a medium sized eruption relative to other volcanic eruptions, the landslide that happened less than a second before was the largest landslide in recorded history
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TIL there is an island in the Pacific of 300 people, no longer than 750m, where a Polynesian people live at a population density equalling that of Bangladesh. The fact that the island’s ecosystem hasn’t been negatively impacted has attracted the attention of sustainability scientists.