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TIL After a psychotherapy experiment in a convent 300 nuns petitioned the Vatican to be released from their vows leaving only a small group of radical lesbian nuns.

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4XXER TIL "The Cosmic Sequence" is a set of numbers starting with 3 cubed, which pythagoras said "represents the cosmos". It seems he was onto something.
XEJOP TIL of speed reader Kim Peek who could read a book in an hour by scanning the left page with his left eye then the right page with his right eye. He also had an exceptional memory, able to accurately recall the contents of 12,000 books.
9w0b7 TIL that the first ATM was developed and built by Luther George Simjian, and installed in 1939 in New York city by the City Bank of New York. Six months later, it was removed due to the lack of customer acceptance
DQDVp Today I learned that if you use nasal sprays for more than three days, you experience a rebound affect, which is something somewhat like an addiction, in that you are no longer able to breathe normally without it
BrWAy TIL that the story of the Pied Piper leading kids away is based on a historic tragedy that occurred in Hamelin, Germany, during the 13th century. Nothing is conclusively known about the nature of the tragedy, besides a 1384 inscription that reads "It is 100 years since our children left''.