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TIL of Sigismondo Malatesta, the only person ever canonized to Hell by the Roman Catholic church.

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PpeV TIL Ikea is run as a non-profit to take advantage of significant tax breaks.
jNarn TIL: Listerine mouthwash is named after Joseph Lister. Joseph Lister was the British surgeon who pioneered antiseptic surgery. During his time, he would be chastised and ridiculed by other doctors for suggesting sanitary practices.
yyNp TIL: that an entire operation theatre from the 1700’s was discovered in the roof of a London church in the 1950’s. The entrance had been walled up and the room undisturbed. The operating table has cuts in it left from amputations and other procedures.
ANAgo TIL one possible origin to the idiom, "shake a leg", meaning to 'get going' or 'hurry it up' came after battles during the Civil War. Stretcher-bearers would violently jostle a leg or arm to elicit a response from victims on the field to determine if he were alive or dead.
WXp9 TIL that in 2011, Two farmers fed up with bribe demands dumped over 40 live snakes in a local tax office in India