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TIL an estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the US Civil War, including one whose cover was blown when she absentmindedly tried to put her pants on over her head, thinking they were her dress

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byx4 TIL in 1440 a clerical error accidentally gave independence to a square mile of Italy, forming an anarchist republic that lasted over four hundred years.
xVovg TIL about the Hedonic Treadmill - the tendency of a person to remain at a relatively stable level of happiness despite changes in fortune or the achievement of major goals. As a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness.
JW7k TIL that adult luna moths have no mouths and therefore cannot eat or drink, as they live for just one week and have only one goal: to reproduce.
EgnrV TIL a group of folks in New Guinea used to not want worms consuming the remains of their deceased loved ones and so decided to eat the bodies themselves. They removed the brain, mixed it with ferns, and cooked it in bamboo tubes. They ate everything at the funerals except the gall bladders
1aKKP TIL: The first person to set foot on the North Pole was an African-American man named Matthew Henson.