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TIL in 1512, a horribly deformed baby was born in the city of Ravenna, and then was starved to death by order of the Pope

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6E8kY TIL that there is no corn involved in making corned beef, the 'corns' are the name for coarse grains of salt used in the curing process.
mEWv TIL the scientific name of Llamas is ‘Lama Glama’
L5nr TIL the Ten commandments quoted by most people aren’t the ten commandments carved into the stone tablets by Moses according to the Bible. The actual Ten Commandments contain gems such as “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk” and “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me.”
XrJX TIL the famous 1870 BDSM novella Venus in Furs ends by saying that women will always be “man’s enemy” until women get equal education and economic rights
m1jKp TIL during WWII Minority U.S. Soldiers Were Picked For Mustard Gas Experiments