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TIL On May 14th, the Catholic church commemorates Saint Corona, patron saint of pandemics...

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grm6X TIL on 30 1993, CERN opened the World Wide Web, "a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents," when it established the very first URL, http://info.cern.ch. It's still there.
QJ0jX TIL that a shogun of Japan named Tsunayoshi Tokugawa loved dogs so much that he set laws for dogs in place such as making it a capital crime for harming a dog and saved over 50,000 dogs from the streets, placing them in kennels begrudgingly funded by citizens of the capital city of Edo.
GApgJ TIL About Operation Underworld — when the US Government and the Mafia Collaborated to stop Nazis
7reLM TIL That the Pantheon is still standing after two millennia because the Romans used better quality concrete than we do
p88x4 TIL that last year in 2016, the first female South Korean President Park Geun-hye was removed from office after leaked information gave evidence Park was being controlled by a shamanistic cult