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TIL that before Charles Fisk started the successful C.B. Fisk organ company, he had unknowingly built equipment Fat Man atomic bomb during World War II.

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R7Ba4 TIL Champollion (guy who deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphics) was instructed not to reveal findings contradicting teachings of the Catholic Church. He dated the Tomb of Menofre to the fifth dynasty, pre-dating Noah's flood. According to the Church it could not exist. He took the secret to his grave.
mWlY TIL One out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.
VMEOB TIL In Norway, to change your surname to one that 200 or fewer people have, you must ask from permission from everyone who has that name
Y7vpZ TIL in 2013 the president of Finland Sauli Niinistö voluntarily took a 20 percent pay cut due to the country's difficult financial situation
yQo8 TIL that Kelsey Grammars Dad was shot and killed, his sister raped and murdered, and his twins brothers killed in a “diving accident” (Eaten by sharks)