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TIL That in France it is illegal to deny that the holocaust happened.

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MWEW TIL Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated
yV50a TIL that scientists once believed mensurating women exert a "dangerous force" called menotoxin. While the term disappeared from the literature in the 1970s, the concept of menotoxin was never convincingly proven or disproven.
N7meQ TIL: When you cremated someone, the cremains are not ash but the bones grinded down to dust.
16vo7 TIL that in 1996 a woman by the name of Georgiana Doerschuck ran for President. Her entire campaign platform was on banning computers. She received a measly 140 votes in the New Hampshire Primary.
LxxQ TIL that Georges Lemaître, the first scientist to theorise the Big Bang, was a Catholic Priest.