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TIL Facebook doesn’t allow breastfeeding photos.
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TIL in 2009, scientists in Iceland unexpectedly drilled into a magma chamber 2.1 km below ground, creating the world’s first magma enhanced geothermal energy source capable of powering 80,000 homes.
4Mx5
TIL during prohibition in the US, merchants sold “bricks” of grape concentrate with a packet of dried yeast. These would come with a “warning label” cautioning not to mix the brick, yeast, water and sugar in a pot and then seal it for seven days, or else “an illegal alcoholic beverage will result”.
rNL80
TIL Bride Price (dowry) was paid if a man slept with a virgin woman and for her to be his bride, is still practiced today in Asia, Europe and some parts of Africa.
OGbY
TIL that P-47 pilots could destroy Tiger tanks by ricocheting their bullets off the ground and through the unarmored bottom of the tank.
6EEKw
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