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TIL Cavalry (horses) and Calvary (site of crucifixion) are different word with distinct meanings

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Z8bkY TIL astronauts typically spend a week in quarantine before any space mission, in order to prevent themselves from giving any possible illnesses to the rest of their crew
RKJ7 TIL The names for domestic food animals while they’re alive, come from the lower class Anglo-Saxons who tended them, and the word for their meat come from the upper class Norman French who could afford to eat them.
oRN0W TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders.
wLxKW TIL that Beethoven was deaf, and that he eventually had to use a pencil to feel the vibrations of the piano. During one of his symphony’s he had to be turned around to see the audience applaud since he couldn’t hear them.
nbwW TIL that Tyler, the Creator and Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) were on an episode of ‘the Regular show’.