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TIL Shakespeare was the first person to use an English mechanic called verbing. Verbing is using a noun as a verb. EG. I sport good. I am currently fooding a hamburger.

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xVoK1 TIL that Buddhist monks are banned from reincarnating without government permission in China.
WQQd TIL several species of animals have never been proven by scientists to actually die of old age. It is believed that these animals may be immortal or may age so slowly that humans cannot detect the process. The phenomenon is called “negligible senescence”
9ABQ TIL Iraq still uses bomb detecting devices that are nothing more than a modern day dowsing rod and have been proven fake. They were purchased for around 85 million.
OGolY TIL that photoelectric cells (which effect explained by Einstein) switched the lights on during the exposition of Chicago from 1833. They were activated from photons coming from Acturus star ; those took 40 years to land there and were released from the star during the previous exposition
P1kKO TIL that cricket used to be a very popular sport in America until the First World War