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TIL: the bill of rights had stuff in there that got “oligarched” out…

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W7oX9 TIL a US congressman once wielded an 18-inch club made from a walrus penis bone in a congressional hearing.
16xwV TIL that on 11 May 1910, 260 children were left fatherless and 85 women widowed as a result of the Wellington Pit Explosion in Whitehaven, Cumbria.
P10We TIL Both VISA and SAAB are examples of recursive acronyms, acronyms that refer to themselves. VISA stands for "Visa International Service Association" and SAAB stands for "Saab Automobile AB."
6mRW TIL that in the early 1980s to prove his hypothesis that the bacterium H.pylori causes ulcer in the stomach, researcher Barry Marshall drank a petri dish containing cultured H.pylori. He received the 2005 Nobel Prize for this work.
4X6W5 TIL: Donkey Kong not developed by Nintendo but rather a subcontracting company that also made Sega's Congo Bongo and Zaxxon. They successfully sued after Nintendo use their source code to create Donkey Kong Jr. without them.