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TIL, from 461 to 468, the Pope Was Hilarius.
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TIL A software developer rigged the lottery software he coded in several states, so he would know what the winning numbers would be 3 days per year.
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TIL that Wolfgang Puck's famous Spago restaurant only got a B- from the Better Business Bureau because he wouldn't pay to join their membership.
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TIL about the birthday effect, a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday. It has been suggested that it is a statistics anomaly, but the birthday effect has been seen in studies that control for known anomalies.
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TIL 6 masterpieces for solo piano were discovered to great excitement, and confirmed by the leading experts to be genuine works by Haydn. They were later proved not to be by him, and are now largely ignored; despite them being genuinely original music which had the aficionados enthralled.
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TIL the use of the term "starboard" to denote the right side of a ship is so-called because they were originally navigated with a steering oar on that side. “stéor bord” in Old English literally means “steering side”. When tying up, the dock always had to be positioned on the left, hence “port”.