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TIL Nobel winner James Watson wrote "The Double Helix" in a fiction like style to attract young people in science. He originally wanted to title his memoir "Honest Jim", and then "Base Pairs", but his co-discoverer Francis Crick had issues with it

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4XE6a TIL of Tarrare, an 18th century Frenchman with abnormal eating habits. He ate live animals, rocks, military documents, and allegedly a toddler. When he died of TB, doctors found him to have an enormous, pus-filled stomach, and other oversized organs. You could see his stomach from down his mouth.
16x74 TIL A traditional marriage custom in Congo forbids the bride and the groom from smiling during their entire wedding day.
XPOQ TIL that nearly 60 percent of Medal of Honor recipients have been Irish-American, including 257 Irish natives.
oME TIL a student designed the RECYCLING logo & got paid out a whopping $2500.
4pOR TIL A man escaped prison using a cardboard box aka Solid Snake syle