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TIL that during the middle ages in France, a nun started to uncontrollably meow and the behaviour quickly started spreading to the rest of the convent weirding out the surrounding commiunities until they were threathened to be whipped

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8aj7b TIL that when people in the UK talk about eating “baked beans on toast”, they’re not referring to the US-style baked beans that consist of a brown sugar base. They have a completely different style of baked beans with a tomato base.
0dWbL TIL The Navy contacted the Village People to use "In the Navy" in an advertising campaign for television and radio. They gave the rights to the song for free on the condition that the Navy help them shoot the music video. The Navy provided them with a warship, several aircraft, and plenty of seamen
MeYYK TIL, There is a center in the NIH called National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and that some of their projects include whether magnets can cure migraines and whether lavender scents improve wound healing and more. Answer: both do not.
R6e8 TIL bees use hexagon shapes for their honeycomb structure in order to create equal sized partitions with the least amount of material possible. This is known as the honeycomb conjecture.
KYkDE TIL of a 1960s CIA project which attempted to turn cats into Cold War spies by implanting listening devices into them. The field test failed when their very first cat spy immediately wandered into traffic and was hit by a taxi. After spending $20 million, the project was quietly canceled.