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TIL Renaissance women would make home made lotions to rid themselves of body hair. Ingredients included arsenic and cat dung.

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e0Nyg TIL The most popular song in the world is an Irish rebel tune: the Wolfe Tone’s version of “A Nation Once Again”, according to a dubious 2002 poll by the BBC
kO7yW TIL Prince Ali Ben Hussein of Jordan set out on horseback together with 14 Circassian riders in 1998 to Circassia (Russia). They followed the trail of the mass Circassian exodus in reverse. His goal was to make it possible for Circassians to return to their ancestral homeland.
xVLVo TIL that Pythagoras cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born. Classical historians dispute whether he himself ever actually made any significant contributions to the field of mathematics.
VMLwD TIL that in the 1920s, Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian Sikh man, tried to argue to the Supreme Court of the United States that he was "white" on the grounds that anthropologists at that time classified people from India as "caucasian." The Court rejected his argument.
pYGp TIL that in Denmark, there is an old law which has never been revoked stating: “If the sea between Denmark and Sweeden freezes, you are allowed to hit the Swedes with a stick”