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X0g7X TIL pulmonary tuberculosis was associated with fragility and sexual attractiveness in the 19th century
neD8B TIL: Octopus don't have tentacles, they have arms. Tentacles technically retract.
Zp7Wv TIL that adjusting for inflation, McDonalds in 1940 was more expensive than today. For example, the basic cheeseburger cost $3.89
6Ed98 TIL that Neil Armstrong earned his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1970...AFTER landing on the moon
b9Z7Z TIL that the last person to be executed for blasphemy in Scotland was a 20-year-old man who called theology "a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense", and the Old Testaments "Ezra's fables", and that Christ "learned magic in Egypt, then performed pranks which were called miracles".