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TIL Graham crackers were invented to help curb masterbation

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b9KZ TIL that when Einstein “wanted a divorce from his first wife, he gave her the ultimatum that, if she wanted to remain with him and not grant him a divorce, then he expected her to serve him three meals a day in his room but not expect any intimacy in return.”
D1APr TIL about Apophis (Egyptian god of death and darkness), an asteroid that will pass earth closer than our own satellites orbit on Friday 13th, 2029. It will touch our atmosphere, and we will be able to see it wiz overhead. There is a debated chance of it impacting Earth when it returns in 2036.
16ZnP TIL Bram stoker's notes for Dracula contain little research into Vlad the Impaler. Much of the modern relation to Vlad the Impaler rely on Raymond McNally's 1972 book, In Search of Dracula. Dracula may have been more based on the repeatedly killed Abhartach of Irish folklore.
JYJnv TIL that O.J Simpson in 2006 had a prank show called "Juiced". In one of the scenes, Simpson is at a used car lot in Las Vegas where he attempts to sell his white bullet holed Bronco
9wEQr TIL Some single-celled organisms are big enough to see with the naked eye, and leave fossils.