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TIL leprechauns are a protected species in the EU.

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vPpw4 TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
E1ZZ0 TIL of the events of Black Monday, 1360. On the first night of the Siege of Chartres the English army, lead by Edward III were camped outside the city walls. In half an hour a freak hailstorm, accompanied by freezing rain, killed nearly 1,000 English soldiers and around 6,000 of their horses.
m4kv TIL that a freezer malfunction at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital in Belmot, Mass. has severely damaged one-third of the world’s largest collection of autism brain samples, potentially setting back research on the disorder by years
eM4n TIL in May 1991, Freddie Mercury started recording vocals for “Mother Love”, but upon reaching the last verse, he told his band that he had to “have a rest” and that he would return to finish it. He didn’t end up making it to the studio, eventually succumbing to AIDS. Brian May sang the final verse.
nDB9 TIL that in Berlin, Germany a church, a mosque and a synagogue share one building jointly which is called House of One