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TIL Columbus thought that some manatees he saw were mermaids. He wrote that they were ‘not half as beautiful as they are painted’

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OVRX TIL failed McDonalds products include the McPizza, McHotdog, a vegetarian pineapple patty burger called McHula, McSpaghetti and the McLobster
NpyM TIL that in Saudi Arabia the weekend is Thursday and Friday. Some business leaders want to switch to a Friday-Saturday weekend to match other Middle Eastern countries, but religious conservatives don’t want to share a weekend with Israel.
Yppex TIL children as young as three are able to recognize the same 'cute' infantile facial features (a set of traits known as the 'baby schema') across different species. They also find images of adult dog faces cuter than both adult cats and human faces.
nveB TIL bees have hair on their eyes. They are used to determine wind direction and flight speed.
d8Ojd TIL frozen pipes burst not because ice expands through the wall of the pipe, but because the expanding ice compresses water downpipe, building pressure until it bursts