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TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem

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j64mv TIL about Morris Kirksey who won two gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics for the USA in the 4x100-meter relay team and rugby. He joined a small band of athletes to win gold in two different sports. (he also won the silver in the 100 meters)
MW4V TIL Princess Diana stated her bulimia started “the week after we got engaged.” “My husband put his hand on my waistline and said: ‘Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?’ and that triggered off something in me.“
VMaMm TIL the Vietnamese word for honey, "mật ông," is widely accepted by linguists to be related to the English word "mead," as the Vietnamese word came from Chinese, which in turn, got it from the now-extinct Indo-European Tocharian language once spoken in present-day NW China.
PYgPg TIL Salvador Dali didn’t believe he would die, “If someday I may die, although it is unlikely, I hope that the people in the cafes will say, ‘Dalí has died, but not entirely.’” This is fitting considering that a museum in Florida is bringing him “back to life” for an AI enhanced exhibition.
eEpL TIL Scientists in Mexico turned tequila into diamonds by heating a cheap shot to 800 degrees Celsius. At that temp, it vaporized and broke down into its atomic constituents, producing a fine layer of carbon crystal structures identical to diamonds on nearby metal trays.