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Today I learned: The train was invented before the bicycle.

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bOpp TIL Oral Roberts claimed he had a vision of a giant Jesus telling him to build a hospital. When the hospital was losing $10 million/year, Roberts claimed he had another vision from giant Jesus threatened to kill him if he didn’t raise $8 million. The hospital went bankrupt being $25 million in debt.
16OyP TIL about Carotenosis, a harmless condition often mistaken for jaundice, which is caused by the prolonged consumption of carrots (and other carotene-rich foods)
78Kr TIL Rochus Misch, age 95, is the last surviving person to have known Hitler personally and witnessed his suicide. He worked as his personal bodyguard, courier and phone operator in the Fuhrerbunker, and still lives in the same house in Berlin where he moved upon his release from the Soviets in 1954
dMgQ TIL that Blockbuster laughed in the face of the Netflix CEOs when they proposed their initial ideas. Ironically they are the ones that put them out of business.
PMPg TIL that the reigning boxing Heavy Weight Champion of the World is also a PhD and an MP in his native Ukraine.