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TIL that according to South Carolina’s constitution, you cannot hold a public office if you deny the existence of a Supreme Being.

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ADy9l TIL that the iconic theme to the original Legend of Zelda was arranged in one night from the music used in-game. Nintendo had originally intended to use a reworked version of Ravel's "Bolero", but discovered immediately before launch that the copyright had a month before expiration.
x67Ag TIL about New York Yankees pitcher David Wells was observed to be out all night partying until the next morning. Despite being hung over, he pitched a perfect game, retiring all 27 batters he faced, marking the 15th perfect game in Major League Baseball history.
a8VwN TIL the oldest company in the world, Kongō Gumi, was founded in 578 A.D.
p8ZmZ TIL of the "Infinite Cat Project", starting in 2003, people have been taking pictures of their cats looking at the previous cat, and so on, and so on...
wMw6 TIL photographer Mathew Brady captured over 7000 photos of the US Civil War (including the portrait of Lincoln that would be used for the $5 bill), which have become the most important visual documentation of the period. He died in debt after the US gov’t did not buy his master-copies after the war.