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TIL that when Finnish Mathematician Lindeberg was asked why he was not very academically active he said he is a farmer first. When asked why his farm is shit he said it is because he is an academic first.

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9OKB TIL the idiom “Jack of all trades, master of none” translates to Lithuanian as “It is impossible to shit in every bush.”
Z8LZR TIL Along with blondes, redheads are the most likely to gray (or, in reality, white) early on, since their hair already lacks the pigment. Caucasians also develop gray hairs earlier than other races, while Asians are the second and African Americans are the third
xMPB TIL, Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was so notorious for cheating on his wife with attractive women who attended sobriety meetings that his colleagues later started calling this type of lechery the thirteenth step.
oGyK TIL there was a pilot made for a MAS*H spin off, where Radar moved from Iowa to St. Louis and became a cop
4kXkN TIL that from 2008 to 2014 an IBM employee with a security cleareance leaked the usage of Danish celebrities' credit cards in real-time to tabloid journalists and received a monthly $1500 "paycheck" for his services.