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TIL that the idea of witches riding broomsticks originates in the Middle Age practice of women using broomsticks to apply psychedelic ointments to their vaginas

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6VZm TIL that bronze is generally harder than iron. The Bronze Age didn’t give way to the Iron Age because iron weaponry was superior; rather, iron was more plentiful and easier to work with.
4kkL5 TIL that the treatment for being scalped is to have holes drilled through the exposed skull.
PY1Le TIL In the last 40 years, the overall survival rate for children’s cancer has increased from 10% to nearly 90% today.
neQ8b TIL Lions who have been kicked out of their pride (pack) have gay sex to bond before trying to take over another pride.
0dyL TIL that in 1943, a German soldier refused to shoot down an American Soldier, and actually escorted him off of German grounds back to the North Sea.