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TIL Byzantine princess Theophano, wife of Holy Roman emperor Otto was resented by the emperor's courtiers for her peculiar habits, including "luxurius tastes", like demanding to take a bath daily and using "a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth", instead of eating with her hands

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OoAp7 TIL 4 teens with vaginal aplasia (born with no vagina) received vagina implants grown in a lab using their own vulva tissue biopsies & pelvic scans. Later, all reported normal arousal, lubrication, intercourse, orgasm; 2 women were able to have the vagina connected to the uterus for reproduction.
wL7rM TIL When Captain Cook returned from his first voyage he brought with him the term ‘tattoo’ if not the practice itself. While inking designs onto the skin was no new thing in 18th Century Europe, ensured much attention to this ancient art and introduced a new word, ‘tattoo’.
kOYJe TIL that in 1998, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lightning struck in the field during a football (soccer) match. 11 people died, all of the same team. The players from the other team were left unharmed. The whole thing even led to accusations of cursing and witchcraft.
WkRE4 TIL the role as the Bond villain Max Zorin, a psychotic KGB deserter conspiring to destroy Silicon valley, was first offered to David Bowie, who declined as he didn't want to spend five months seeing his stunt doubles "fall off cliffs". The role went to Christopher Walken instead.
NXxd8 TIL that it takes Sloths a whole month to digest a single leaf and they only poop once a week.