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TiL Guinness Book of Records was invented to settle bar arguments.

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p8Vgp TIL The earliest depiction of Jesus was mocking graffiti carved into marble by a mischievous student to tease another student named Alexamenos, who was apparently a devout Christian. Jesus is drawn with the head of a donkey, because Romans believed Jews worshipped Donkeys.
OGjL7 TIL that human body temperature has been declining by 0.05 degrees F each decade
QvLX TIL Hungarian chemist Georgy de Hevesy dissolved Max von Laue and James Franck’s Nobel Prize medals in a highly corrosive mix of acids, aqua regia, to hide from the Nazis. After the war, he precipitated the gold out of solution and sent it to Stockholm where the medals were recast.
78w0O TIL that the Greek philosopher Herophilus named the coxxyx (human tail bone) after the beak of the cuckoo bird.
VePQ TIL that Jack McConaughey, Matthew McConaughey’s dad, died of a heart attack while having sex with his wife.