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TIL - Jesuit Priest Athanasius Kircher has been compared to da Vinci as 'Master of a Hundred Arts'. Considered a founder of Egyptology, proposed the plague was spread by microorganism, andinventions attributed to him include a magnetic clock, various automatons and the first megaphone.

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ek6J TIL Musician Sammy Davis Jr. Was Jewish. When asked what his handicap was while out golfing one day, he replied, “Talk about handicap- I’m a one-eyed Negro Jew.”
0w9yv TIL: Lidocaine is often added to cocaine as a diluent, this is why it numbs the gums when applied. This often gives users the impression of high quality cocaine, when in actuality the user is receiving a diluted product.
1aR6d TIL: Tupac Amaru Shakur's mother was a black panther activist who named her son after an Incan ruler who, in the late 1700s, lead the largest rebellion in Spanish Colonial history. The rebellion was unfortunately unsuccessful and he died as a consequence.
WnkY TIL many German POWs captured by the Allies in WW2 were so horrified by footage of the Holocaust that they burned their uniforms and called on Germany to surrender, and even volunteered to join the fight against the Axis.
RKDQ TIL Dolphins can communicate with one another over a telephone, and appear to know who they are talking. In one experiment carried in an aquarium in Hawaii, the mother and her two-year-old calf in another tank, connected by a special underwater audio link, recognized each other and “talked”.