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TIL the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams of matter into energy.

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78V9L TIL there was a man who was granted a considerable amount of land by King Henry II in exchange for an annual performance of farting. Roland the Farter was a twelfth century flatulist.
b6L1Q TIL that "On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me 4 COLLY birds." Traditional versions of the "12 Days of Christmas" song include the word COLLY instead of CALLING. Colly likely means "black", as in my true love gave me 4 blackbirds on the 4th day of Christmas.
yDv TIL that during the 1950’s Tour de France, one cyclist named Abdel-Kader Zaaf who was in 1st place drank two bottles of wine, took a nap and resumed the race, in the wrong direction (and lost).
dDXyQ TIL that anti ligature coat hooks exists and death by coat hanger is a big enough problem for this solution to exist.
E1M6P TIL about xenodiagnosis - where a bug that would usually carry a disease-carrying organism is allowed to feed on a patient's blood so that its gut can be then examined to try and find the organism and make the diagnosis