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TIL Cinderella has been in almost every culture even back to ancient Egypt.

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wLnKP TIL in South Korea, spinning “barber poles” outside an establishment signify a brothel not a barbershop
nYdW TIL Puerto Rico is solving its iguana problem by putting the meat on menus (and they call it the chicken of the trees!)
WNJ9 TIL there is an adapter for a computer mouse to help people who have hand tremors use computers more easily.
5aD8 TIL that Vatican’s chief astronomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
P1bDG TIL that we don't actually know who the first person to reach the North Pole was. Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, and Richard Byrd all said they were the first people to reach it, but none of their claims are confirmed.