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TIL the chemical element calcium is a metal.

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R7pbj TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.
d8Z1r TIL that the couple in the Pulitzer-Prize photo “Burst of Joy” divorced within a year and the husband, Robert Stirm, who had spent over five years in a North Vietnamese prison, was forced to give 43% of his retirement to his ex-wife.
rbDo TIL: Only 0.7% of people in India are Buddhists. Apart from the Himalayas and niche locations, Buddhism was virtually extinct in India by the end of the 19th century.
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epZOk TIL that IBM, a company well-known for the IBM PC which became an industry standard personal computer in the 80s, also manufactured M1918 Browning automatic rifles during WWII.