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TIL the term pub is short for public house

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xV7x5 TIL that the Loofa Sponge is made from a vegetable known as the luffa gourd.
XBlP TIL the first man to perform cardiac catheterization, did it on himself then walked downstairs to the radiology department to take the x-ray to prove you would not die. He was fired, became a Nazi, then won the Nobel Prize.
R7Wbl TIL Sicilian feline, Vituzzo (aka Vito), is the first Italian cat to get prosthetic legs. After his hind legs were crushed by a car in Milan and had to be amputated, he got permanent leg implants spring-loaded with joints. (This comes on the heels of British cat Oscar, the 1st ever bionic cat).
4yPb TIL scientist feared the first atomic test would initiate an unstoppable chain reaction and ultimately lead to the destruction of earth
o8GW TIL that in 2014 Sony made a cassette tape that could hold 185 terabytes of data or the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs.