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TIL that nipple piercings were a fad during the Victorian era

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BrE5b TIL in 2014, Harvard University discovered that a book inside their library from the 1880s was bound together using human skin. The book was named Destinies Of The Soul and was written by Dr. Bouland. In the book, he left this note: "A book about the human soul deserved to have human covering."
ogMo TIL of “The Widower”, a dish from Grantham made with 20 infinity chilies and claimed to be the worlds hottest curry. Only one person has ever finished it; he took an hour to finish it and spent 10 minutes of that time hallucinating due to the endorphin rush.
xAA7 TIL that mathematician Paul Erdős published so many papers during his lifetime that there exists the Erdős number scale which measures the “collaborative distance” between Erdős and other mathematicians. Over 130,000 mathematicians have an Erdős number.
epBPE TIL the Cherokee writing system was invented by one man, Sequoyah. His 6yo daughter was the first to learn it, but they were charged with sorcery. Kept apart, they wrote letters to one another; this convinced the town it was just communication. 25 years later, nearly 100% of Cherokee were literate.
VBpn0 TIL Anthony Bourdain never filmed a show in Switzerland, because the country gave him the willies.