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TIL that King Midas turning his daughter into gold was not in the original myth; the daughter was added by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1852

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oBwpK TIL Aside from prequels, there are also the midquels, which includes interquels and intraquels. Prequels portray events prior those of the original work, interquels refer to works which take place between two preceding works, and intraquels take place in between events in a single work.
9wBJQ TIL around 80% of a badger’s diet is made up of earthworms – they can eat hundreds of them in a single night – but they also eat slugs and other invertebrates along with apples, pears, elderberries and plums. When earthworms are scarce, badgers will eat small mammals like voles, hedgehogs & rabbits.
16D97 TIL the commander of U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, George Morrison, was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band The Doors.
e0YVJ TIL that snow globes were accidentally invented by a medical tool repair man. He was trying to make a brighter light bulb for operating rooms, so he tried using a water filled glass with reflective particles to do this. The effect looked like snow to him which is how he got the idea for snow globes.
Bgrdk TIL Empress Leopoldina from the house of Habsburg was the first woman to become head of state in an independent country in the Americas. She was one of the masterminds behind Brazil independence and the yellow in the flag symbolizes her house of Habsburg. She was also behind German migrations there.