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TIL Phil Lynott was so proud of his Irish heritage that every time he was talking to a journalist who said something untrue about Ireland, Lynott would "give the guy a history lesson".

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KOBpw TIL 18 and 19 year olds are technically teenagers
D1XkD TIL that according to legend, in the 14th century, a boy urinated on a fuse that was set to explode all of Brussels. There is a statue commemorating him in Belgium.
Mele0 TIL about Tom Sachs. An autistic NYC-based sculptor who, when needing money, would use his art tools and scraps to make crude improvised firearms in his studio to sell in the NYPD Buyback programs for up to $300 apiece.
78nmb TIL that gold standard was accidentally introduced by Isaac Newton
9YA9p TIL of Hannah Senesh, a Jewish paratrooper and poet during the Holocaust. She was captured, tortured, and eventually executed, but never gave up her comrades. "I could have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost."