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TIL: Amish beards have no mustache because they associate them with the military, and they're pacifists

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9YkAr TIL the town of Slaughter, TX, had never had a homicide
KYwpB TIL whiskers can spontaneously grow from tin and several other metals, sometimes causing catastrophic damage within electrical circuits. NASA has a team dedicated to investigating this risk, but the fundamental cause of “whiskering” has still not been discovered.
QNWpM TIL that in spite of a public funeral attended by thousands, blues singer Bessie Smith’s grave was unmarked until 1970 because her husband refused to buy a headstone and pocketed the money when her friends attempted to purchase one on her behalf.
69v5w TIL Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times (carcinization)
o1AK TIL during the Iraq-Iran War, the United States shot down an Iranian civilian plane, killing 260 people.