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TIL: Before he dropped it, Prince Phillip’s surname was Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

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wL8B7 TIL that while the fictional Jon Snow knew nothing, the microbiologist John Snow traced the outbreak of cholera to Soho, London, in 1854, and inspired the overhaul of waste management systems around the world.
pY7je TIL that a Jewish Wrestler won a gold medal by defeating a German Wrestler in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, which was ruled by the Nazis and a showcase to prove German superiority. Nazi Germany didn’t win any gold medals in Wrestling
Y7dwd TIL that after the poet Charles Baudelaire suffered a stroke and became an aphasiac, the only phrase he could say was the last one spoken before or as he had his stroke: Crénom!” (holy shit!).
6EWXJ TIL That the word "Jiffy" (as in, "i'll be back in a jiffy" or "Jiffy Lube") refers to an actual Unit of time, 'The Jiffy', which is defined as "the amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum".
7Gor TIL Cruise ships are legally allowed to discharge (and they do) - raw, untreated sewage once they are three miles from shore. A typical cruise ship can produce up to 30,000 gallons of sewage a day.