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TIL, vegan horseback riding, aka hobby horsing, is a sport.

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5YlyD TIL that Mirrors didn’t exist until circa 500 BC so the only way people knew what they looked like was by looking at their reflection in still water. Thus, water was a symbol of the self and a symbol of death.
M74D7 TIL: The attack on the Philippines Dec. 8 was larger in scale than Pearl Harbor but nobody remembers it. In the Philippines, then a U.S. territory, the attackers laid waste to the largest concentration of US warplanes outside North America—the foundation of the Allies’ Pacific air defense.
Yp1Er TIL Tian Mingjian, a sharpshooter, killed his commanding officer and 27 others after his wife was forced to terminate her second pregnancy, killing her
Np4J TIL that a blue whale is so large that its tongue weighs the same as an elephant and its heart weighs the same as a car.
wLeGY TIL there is a sourdough “hotel” at the Arlanda Airport in Sweden that will care for your sourdough starter while you’re away.