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TIL that Kobe Bryant's Middle Name Is Bean
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TIL Chinese water snake oil reduces inflammation due to being rich in Omega-3. In the 1800’s, Clark ‘The Rattlesnake King’ Stanley, sold ‘100% Snake Oil’. It did not actually contain any snake oil. Hence the term ‘Snake Oil Salesman’.
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TIL Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand postal worker and amateur entomologist. Hudson thought that the extra daylight during the warmer months would give him more time to hunt insects after work
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TIL that Donnie from The Wild Thornberrys was voiced by Flea of the Hot Chili Peppers
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TIL that in the late Classical Era of Greece, women owned 35% of the land and property in Sparta. When a woman's husband died(usually in battle), his land and property passed to the wife, not to the oldest male.
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TIL humans have invisible “stripes” in their skin that are only visible due to certain skin diseases. The patterns that these “stripes” form are thought to be the migration patterns of embryonic cells.