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TIL that Gwen Stefani is now older than Rue McClanahan was when she started playing Blanche on Golden Girls

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LQma9 TIL Until 1958 Popes were embalmed by having all their organs removed. Pious XII was against this so a novel method was used: it went so bad that his body started rapidly decaying while still in public view and the ceremony was canceled after the chemical reactions made the swiss guards fall ill
NXxGQ TIL of the Bengal Water Machine, a water capture mechanism resulting from the pumping of shallow subsurface water by millions of individual small landholders.
6bEQ TIL at a Marine Mammal Studies Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in trash that fell into the pools in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.
ae1A TIL Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Bass” plagiarized its melody from a Korean song that came out 8 years earlier.
5OMQ TIL that every last F14 Tomcat america has in flyable storage is being shredded to prevent spares reaching Iran who are still flying the ones sold to them by the US in the 70’s