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TIL Aside from Thanksgiving, Americans eat more on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day.

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mxkvO TIL Thomas Jefferson described the miracles in the Bible, including Jesus coming back from the dead, as "contrary to reason". When it came to the Bible, he was only interested in the moral teachings of Jesus and nothing else.
Qnwe TIL “There are approximately 850 million visits each year to American museums, more than the attendance for all major league sporting events and theme parks combined (483 million in 2011)
jNWDa TIL the King's doctor Johann Struensee seized power for over a year in 18th century Denmark. He managed to abolish slavery, abolish censorship of the press, and have an affair with the Queen before being ousted and executed in 1772
nWWnP TIL that the Mutter Museum has a collection of over 2000 objects removed from people's throats, esophagi, and lungs by a single doctor- Chevalier Jackson, MD, who kept notes so other doctors could learn how to safely remove things from people's airways. Most of them are on display.
RxQ TIL “TASER” is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle”.