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TIL that before Pope Clement VIII's endorsement of coffee, coffee was considered satanic by many people

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KOPJJ TIL French astronomer and mathematician Urbain le Verrier used observational data from Uranus to deduce the position of an unknown planet, which German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle used to find Neptune, within one hour of searching and within one degree of Verrier's prediction (1846).
LwZp TIL that many common disease causing bacteria are actually harmless bacteria that have been infected by a virus.
oB0Z7 TIL that to tell how old sharks are, they count the rings in the vertebrae
x01D TIL there’s a Scottish in-joke about the ‘wild haggis’. When polled, one third of US visitors to Scotland said they believed it was a real creature.
e8X5 TIL the sunken wreck of a long-lost Second World War submarine, thought to contain the bodies of 71 servicemen sealed inside its airtight chambers, has been found by divers off the coast of Sardinia