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TIL The Doom Slayer and Isabelle are canonically married

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D1eAP TIL that the USS Constitution, a wooden frigate first launched in 1797 and still active for ceremonial and educational purposes, is the only active ship in the U.S. Navy fleet to have sunk an enemy vessel in combat.
xVQG1 TIL Irish people believe that Autumn (Fall) starts in August and follow the Gaelic calendar for the seasons.
oRPWK TIL even though Elijah Muhammad's many infidelities with his personal secretaries were used as a reason for Malcolm X's break from the Nation of Islam, Malcolm started his own affair with a secretary from his OAAU organization that lasted until his assassination.
JxJV TIL the toothpick is known to predate the arrival of early modern humans. It is the oldest instrument for dental cleaning. The skulls of Neanderthals, as well as Homo sapiens, have shown clear signs of having teeth that were picked with a tool.
e0GNg TIL The Sharps Rifle was nicknamed "Beecher's Bible" after abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher: "You might just as well...read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; but they have a supreme respect for the logic that is embodied in Sharp's rifle."