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TIL in 2004 Yale pranked Harvard into holding up “we suck” signs

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BrGDK TIL Critics responded negatively to the use of nudity in the pilot episode of Stargate SG1, which was filmed at Showtime's insistence. Those scenes were cut or edited in future releases on DVD and TV.
m154o TIL that the common ancestor of all mammals lived about 180 million years ago
wolWY TIL Descartes was about to publish "The World" in 1633 but then he learned that Galileo had been condemned for publishing the view that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Descartes suppressed his book but still hoped that his physics would one day be taught in Catholic schools
jlPj TIL If your parents or Grandparents were born in Ireland but you were born abroad you are an Irish citizen and can apply for an Irish passport this also counts for adopted children
rRmmM TIL that all polar bears are Irish because they are all descendants of Irish brown bears that lived in the last ice age.