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TIL Lebanon bars non-citizens from becoming engineers, doctors, or lawyers, among more than 70 other prohibited occupations

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X0K8E TIL that Galileo likely observed Neptune 233 years before its discovery: In two of his drawings of his observations, he plotted an object in the location where Neptune would have been on those dates. However, he likely mistook it for a star because of its slow rate of motion.
J18Rl TIL Hippocrates taught human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. To be healthy you need them to be in correct proportion, both in strength and quantity, and well mixed
LK1v TIL that an Artificial Intelligence turned $20 into $11,000 by gambling
eEJb TIL that in 1945, the day before Germany surrendered, the RAF shot a boat carrying holocaust victims, killing about 5,000 people. Three times as many as died on the Titanic
78V7 TIL that Diamonds evaporate when they reach 763 degrees Celsius. They just vanish, without leaving ash or anything.