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TIL the drug quaalude was named after a combination of the phrase “quiet interlude”

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WRJN TIL Einstein wanted to be cremated and his ashes scattered with his brain in his head to “discourage idolaters” but the Doctor performing the autopsy put the brain in formaldehyde and kept it for himself.
oRoxA TIL Columbia is the personification and spirit of America, aka Lady Columbia. Derived from Christopher Columbus (Colombo) last name. Many countries, states, cities, landmarks are similarly named Columbia (also Colombia has a similar name origin).
GY9R4 Scientists accidentally create a mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
E5mP TIL that in 2012, an thief stole a Dali off the wall of a gallery in broad daylight but, finding no way to sell it, mailed it back. A year later, police caught him. He stole some juice from a supermarket, was fingerprinted, and the prints matched those on the returned Dali.
6E7Y7 TIL That Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger in the eponymous Bond film, saved two Jews during World War 2. He was a former Nazi Party member, and Israel banned his films after this became known. But when one of the Jews he saved spoke up for him, they rescinded the ban.