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TIL that the Aztecs sometimes held a festival called Pillahuana, where young children would get drunk as an initiation into adulthood

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5YgkB TIL Paul McCartney refused to let "Weird" Al Yankovic parody 'Live And Let Die' as 'Chicken Pot Pie' on the grounds that he's a vegetarian. Just like with Eminem, Al made up a fake interview with the former Beatle
dDeOB TIL Napoleon Bonaparte suffered from severe gastrointestinal issues. Which is why in the portraits he is holding his stomach .
5V57B TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.
D1pbp TIL new Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers are fuzzy on the sole, because this allows them to be taxed as slippers. Slippers have a much lower import tariff than shoes (in the USA.)
LkBoP TIL that tens to hundreds of thousands of animals are being slaughtered in Gadhimai festival, known as world's largest animal sacrifice ritual, in Nepal despite ban from the authorities and protests from animal right activists. The scale of the slaughter, however, has decreased sharply over time.