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Kathrin @ Kathrin @trouth.eu
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Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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Today I learned Ronald Reagan's Treasury Secretary and Chief of Staff was named Donald Regan.
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Today I learned about the "village homosexual" in Tahitian culture who is always available when there are no women.

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    Today I learned about the "village homosexual" in Tahitian culture who is always available when there are no women.

    Today I learned that the Archbishop of York had a piece of Louis XIV's mummified heart in a locket. In 1848 he showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who ate it.

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  • @todayilearned Relevant quote:

    While dining out one evening at Lord Harcourt's residence at Nuneham in 1848 he was shown a silver locket containing an object resembling pumice stone. He popped the object in his mouth, perhaps to try and find out what mineral it was, and swallowed it. It was in fact part of the mummified heart of Louis XIV of France which had been taken from the royal tomb by a member of the Harcourt family.

    • TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

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    Today I learned that the Archbishop of York had a piece of Louis XIV's mummified heart in a locket. In 1848 he showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who ate it.

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    If your platform doesn’t show all four panels of this quite exquisite and - dare I say - groundbreaking work of art, here is a link you can click to enjoy it in its entirety: https://trouth.eu/@Kathrin/114048021455654717

    If you are confused, don’t sweat it. All will be revealed in time.

    • Comics @lemmy.ml
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    Today I learned @lemmy.ml
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    Today I learned that Wernher von Braun (of Nazi Rocket Scientist infamy) wrote a sci-fi novel about Mars colonisation. In 1971 a South African racist named his son after the book's