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TIL that most refrigerator doors are reversible to account for different kitchen spaces

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4XAXb TIL during the Jim Crow era in the U.S., the turban was used by people of color for "confounding the color lines"—in other words, if you could pass yourself off as something other than black, you might circumvent some amount of discrimination.
J1DGk TIL that rural women in Burundi greet each other with a complex musical ritual called 'akazehe'
BrYle TIL that the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the first lighthouse in the world, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, constructed during the 3rd century BC and it was built of limestone from a quarry near the coast
PYXvn TIL the difference between a barnacle and a limpet. I learned this while chatting with my Peruvian friend about clingy people. I call them "barnacles" and she calls them "lapas" (limpets).
nELW TIL former astronaut Buzz Aldrin once punched a moon landing hoax conspiracy theorist in the face