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TIL that the children’s menu was created during prohibition as a result of restaurants attempting to offset the losses from going “dry”.

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o4Vr TIL that Vishakanyas or ‘Poison damsels" were girls who were used as assasins.They were made poisonous by exposing them to low-intensity poison from a very young age. Their body fluids would be “poisoned” and sexual contact would thus be lethal to other humans.
4XPeN TIL There are 5 Ages of the Universe. We are in the second (the Stelliferous Era), which is dominated by galaxies and new stars. But during the Degenerate Era, there will be no fuel for new stars, leaving only stellar corpses like white and brown dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.
kJWym TIL that German speaking countries have sinks specifically for vomiting called Speibecken or Kotzbecken
LQX5v TIL most plants grow faster in the evening and at night than they do during the day.
QJNvL TIL that crawfish don’t have brains. What people actually suck out their heads is a the hepatopancreas, which is similar to eating foie gras