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TIL Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of prostitutes.
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TIL Robert Hooke, despite pioneering the experimental method and discovering many elements of gravitational theory first, was almost entirely erased from history by Sir Isaac Newton because they did not like each other and Newton lived 25 years longer, allowing him to edit history to his favour.
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TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.
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TIL that a psychiatric study done on survivors of the WWII London bombings shows that while people that barely survived suffered shock and trauma, people farther away felt a "feeling of excitement with a flavor of invulnerability".
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TIL Post Malone had 3 separate songs certified diamond on 4/20/23 and also has more diamond certified songs than any artist in history
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TIL that can openers were invented about 80 years after canned food