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TIL in the 1950s Temple University and the City of Philadelphia disinterred an entire cemetery to expand Temple's campus and dumped 28,000 headstones into the river

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X4EE TIL that the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” comes from St. Ambrose who would switch his Milanese patterns of fasting to those of the Romans whenever he stayed in Rome.
GYa8E TIL of Jamie Hull, an ex soldier, who's cockpit caught fire as he was flying. Despite being engulfed in flames, he remained composed and brought the plane down to 15ft before jumping off the wing. He suffered lacerated organs and 63% burns. After 62 operations, he is now a proud motivational speaker
nPyb TIL One of the first items sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. When eBay creator, Pierre Omidyar, emailed the person who bought the broken laser pointer for $14.83 ($22.40 today) to make sure he knew it was broken, the man told him “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”
a5M9 TIL that a school in Poland is named after an Indian Maharaja, in honour of him providing shelter and free education to hundreds of Polish women and children after they had to escape Poland due to the World War 2.
9wDYr TIL Richard Scolyer, one of the world’s leading skin cancer researchers, was diagnosed with a stage 4 brain cancer, which is said to be terminal, so he used an experimental skin cancer treatment developed by him and his colleagues to treat it. One year later, the cancer still hasn't returned.