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TIL "Valentine's day" is named after Saint Valentine. He was a Christian bishop and a physician. He refused to treat his own fatally sick mother because she would not give up her belief in pagan God Jupiter and get baptized. The disease killed her

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RE5l TIL since 1967 there has always been a plane in the air above the US which has the ability to retarget and launch nuclear missiles without the crew in the underground missile silos being involved.
wo5xE TIL of Ptolemy Ceranus, who was a son to Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy. Rejected from inheriting his father's Egyptian throne he traveled to Macedonia where he made the kingdom fall to an invasion, assassinated the conqueror, and then died in battle - causing 2 years of anarchy in the region
XVNj TIL there have been no successful attempts to reach the Sentinelese people, rendering them completely isolated from the rest of the world
n5QW TIL in South Korea, children under 17 are blocked from playing online games past midnight which is monitored by their KSSN (Korean Social Security Number).
ePon TIL a Y2K bug caused mothers’ ages to be calculated incorrectly, leading to 154 faulty Down’s Syndrome tests being sent out, which in turn led to two abortions and four failures to discover the syndrome.