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TIL that Saint Patrick is the patron saint of not just Ireland but also of Nigeria, Boston, engineers, and paralegals.

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epW76 TIL, India has become the first country in the world to develop and airdrop a portable hospital
Yp5aG TIL The association between glasses and being elderly/weak/passive faded when Theodore Roosevelt was regularly photographed wearing his pince-nez glasses. Other famously bespectacled people of the era are the actor Harold Lloyd and the cricket player Ernest Killick.
b9kG7 TIL before Fred the Red Manchester United had another mascot, Billy the goat. Billy would regularly drink with the players down the pub after a game. When United won the FA Cup in 1909, he had too much champagne in the post match celebrations & died of alcohol poisoning.
e0VQ5 TIL just about every product we buy and use has been gobbled up by one of about 10 megacorporations
XpY8 TIL that President James K. Polk’s last words were addressed to his wife, and he said, “I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”