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TIL baroque pearls are a category of pearls that are developed with non-spherical, irregular shapes.

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DQ4eY TIL The mathematician William Playfair (noted for inventing the line, area, bar, and pie charts) was also a spy. The Scottish Playfair counterfeited and distributed false assignats which drove down their value and put France into an economic crisis by 1795.
Bgek TIL Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.
6969m TIL that in ancient Babylon, doctors who failed to cure a patient or caused death could have their hands cut off as punishment
4k64o TIL that all four of the beatles contracted gonorrhea while the they were in Hamburg.
ow78 TIL Producers of the Big Bang Theory discovered a nearly identical show called “The Theorists” being produced and broadcast in the country of Belarus. Legal action wasn’t necessary because when the actors found out it was a rip-off they all quit and it was cancelled.