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TIL about Nobel Disease aka Nobelitis - Tendency for Some Nobel Winners to Embrace Fringe Beliefs Later in Life

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e0Jv4 TIL for his role in liberating the Jews of Babylon and allowing them to rebuild in Zion, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, is the only non-Jewish person in the Bible/Torah to be described as a messiah.
MeGbA TIL Humans are deuterostomes, which means the butthole forms before any other openings, and organs during development.
N7rmE TIL that 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and 90% by the third.
Bg0VL TIL William Shakespeare, often regarded as England's greatest playwright, is believed to have been born and died on St. George's Day, April 23rd. However, the exact dates of his birth and death are not conclusively known.
JYRLk TIL Playboy featured a transgender model in 1991