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TIL Tobey Maguire has won over $10 million playing professional poker.

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lobka TIL an NHK survey revealed that 29% of Japanese respondents believed that "being drunk together" = consent to have sex (link and translation in comments)
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
40Qw TIL we say “pardon my French” after swearing because in the 19th century, English-speaking people would drop French phrases into conversation to display class, apologizing because many of their listeners wouldn’t know the language. Then people hid swear words under the pretense of them being French.
JYL44 TIL German alchemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus when he tried to make gold from urine
R5rZa TIL that the original Apollo mission was concerned about losing the astronauts and capsule to quicksand on the Moon