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TIL Opossums are actually really helpful to humans.

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P7Vn TIL that Joan of Arc was (technically) condemned to death for cross-dressing. The Church made her pledge to no longer wear men’s clothing, but her jailers only let her have men’s clothing to wear; breaking her pledge was defined as heresy, giving the Inquisition its excuse to burn her
yVK7e TIL there is a variant of Pool with bumpers like in pinball & 2 holes instead of 6
JYpll TIL that colors change with under water depth, turning gray as denser water absorbs more frequencies quicker.
rNE11 TIL that certain Mayan bloodletting rituals calls for piercing the penis of a ruler. Blood was then scattered and collected and burned. Other soft body parts were used depending on the needs of the ritual. For example, genitalia would be pierced for fertility rituals.
DQVkP TIL: The Carrington Event in 1859 cause auroras so bright and far south that Rocky Mountain miners in the US woke up and started preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning. Such an event today would be catastrophic with our dependence on electricity and electronic devices.