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TIL that János Bolyai, one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry, won thirteen pistol duels in a single afternoon, playing his violin between each of them.

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neago TIL of John Howland, an indentured servant boy who went overboard on The Mayflower and was miraculously saved. His descendants include: The Bush family, FDR, writers Emerson & Longfellow, Brigham Young & Joseph Smith, Chevy Chase and over 2 million other Americans.
oBEBo TIL that, in 1986, Michael Moore was an editor for the progressive magazine Mother Jones. He was fired after only four months. The reasoning behind his firing is disputed, but he sued for $2 million, settled for $58,000, and used that money to fund his first movie.
DXeV TIL in Star Wars, the Sith were originally red-skinned humanoids that lived on a planet the dark-side using Jedi were exiled to. Using the Force, they became worshiped by the natives, and became a “Dark Lord of the Sith.”
DnVv TIL for 85 grand you can have a doctor snap your shin bones in half and extend the length of your legs
EgMLx TIL that the British Empire was the largest in human history, about six times larger than the Roman Empire, occupying close to a quarter of the world