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TIL- That there was a Pipe Smoker of the Year award. Winners included Stephen Fry, Tony Benn and Patrick Moore

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BrQAe TIL Mark Twain was born two weeks after Halley's Comet's closest approach in 1835. In 1909 he said he must also go out with it. His prediction was accurate as he died 1 day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.
bA0j TIL alpha/beta wolves don’t exist in the wild, a misconception due to observing those raised in captivity
mD6x TIL that the idea that people used to think that the world was flat is actually a modern misconception and “with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat”
a6BA TIL that Turkey (which wants to join the EU) imprisons more journalists than China and Iran combined.
R7jgw TIL the general consensus among theologians is that the birth date of Jesus Christ is between 6 and 4 Before Christ