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TIL: Between 1940 and 1970 Harvard and Yale took nude photos of incoming freshmen

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jNgXp TIL that Paul Kern, who was shot in the head in WWI and never slept again, spent about 12 of his 24-hr days clubbing and the worst “side effect” was how much it cost to stay awake all the time.
eRD4 TIL that CERN invented HTML.
nnlG TIL a book named Agrippa was released in 1992 that can only be read once before it destroys itself. It also includes a floppy disk with a 300 word poem designed to corrupt itself after a single read. It cost $450.
awONN TIL that Ulysses S Grant thought that the Mexican American War was one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.
LrPV TIL that parts of the Eye of Horus symbol were used by Ancient Egyptians to represent numerical fractions.