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TIL There is a Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum with shakers dating as far back as 1500s

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4XANJ TIL the term 'Toxic Masculinity' was first coined in the 1980's by the Jungian MythoPoetic Men's Movement, who believed that because most men no longer perform masculine rituals, men have mutated into destructive, hypermasculine chauvinists, or, in the opposite direction, have become too feminized.
X0QM8 TIL in 12th-century England, two green-skinned children appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, spoke an unknown language, and said they came from a twilight world called Saint Martin’s Land.
6EA5Q TIL that most Muppets are left-handed because most Muppeteers are right-handed, so they operate the head with their favored hand, using their right hand to operate the head while operating the arm rod with their left hand.
4Y9b TIL that the name of a flock of ravens is “an unkindness of ravens” or a “Conspiracy of ravens”.
x6Za1 TIL about tooth-in-eye surgery, a surgery for restoring vision where a tooth implanted in the eye. For the surgery, the patient has a tooth removed and shaped, a plastic lens added, and put into their cheek for a few months to allow flesh to grow around it, then removed and implanted into their eye.