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TIL there is a Peruvian dish called Cuy which consists of cooked Guinea Pig.

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Ooa TIL: That at MIT you can earn your “Pirate Certificate” by taking the physical education courses of pistol, archery, sailing, and fencing.
Oo8nL TIL There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written
M77b8 TIL of Mary Anning, who discovered, with her brother, the first ichthyosaur fossil at age 12. She would go on to discover many more fossils and revolutionize the science of paleontology. However, due to being a woman in the early 1800s, she rarely received full credit for her discoveries.
bLm7 TIL that women apologize more often than men, though men and women are equally as likely to apologize for a given offense; men just have a higher threshold for what is considered offensive
lxVa TIL when researchers from Texas State Univ., who were studying the 17th century pirate Captain Morgan, ran out of funds while attempting to retrieve artifacts from his sunken ships off the coast of Panama, none-other than the Captain Morgan rum company granted them money to continue their work.