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TIL that Lil Wayne once officiated a same-sex wedding while in jail

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jOQj TIL an engineer designed a 3 in-lb torque wrench that was emailed to an astronaut that became the first object designed on Earth to be manufactured in space.
6g08 TIL That Jesus is mentioned more often in the Quran than Muhammad while Mary is mentioned in the Quran more than the New Testament.
JAn4 TIL Albert Einstein got out of an expensive divorce settlement by agreeing to pay his ex-wife alimony plus the full amount of his Nobel Prize - despite the fact he hadn’t won it yet
eaGL TIL that the Sanskrit word for war literally means “a desire for more cows”
O47 TIL that the Hubble can identify something only 10-24 km across at a distance of 4.7 billion km. That’s the equivalent of seeing a red blood cell at a distance of 1 km.