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TIL The age of consent in the Vatican is 12 years old
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TIL In 2010 a man claiming to be from the future was attempting to stop the discovery of the Higgs Boson, he was arrested and sent to a mental hospital where he disappeared
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TIL there is a material that is so dense, “if you had a cubic centimeter…, it would weigh 40 billion tons.”
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TIL that Marry, Mary, Merry, Bury, Larry, Leery, Fairy, and Ferry aren't all pronounced the same in other english accents
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TIL of Zheng Pingru, a female Chinese socialite who would join the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Shanghai during World War 2. She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun, the security chief of the local Japanese collaborationist regime, who she dated.
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TIL that the 5th US Congress and John Adams mandated health insurance for privately employed sailors and created a socialized government-operated Marine Hospital Service in 1798 by passing the “Act for the Relief of Sick & Disabled Seamen.”