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TIL if you lose a body part, doctors can tuck it under the skin so it can create tissue and maintain a blood supply

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LkZbm TIL in the year 1200, all of France was placed under Interdict - a punishment from the Catholic Church banning rites like communion, marriages, communion, etc. - because King Phillip II took a second wife while still legally married to (and imprisoning) Ingeborg of Denmark.
WkDVd TIL: Fashionable women have been dying their hair pink as early as the 1910's
m15dE TIL that it is unknown why the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Norway despite the other Nobel Prizes being awarded in Sweden. Alfred Nobel, who the awards were established in memory of, said that it should be that way in his will and gave no explanation as to why
lkmK TIL that the word “cat” is so old that it can be traced all the way to the Late Egyptian “čaute”.
oBYLR TIL about castrato, a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty to preserve their high pitch.