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TIL Nikola Tesla used Sanskrit words in his descriptions of natural phenomena. After meeting Swami Vivekananda, Tesla began using the words 'Akasha', 'Prana', and the concept of a luminiferous ether to describe the source, existence and construction of matter.

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Z8XnB TIL of Noor Inayat Khan - renowned for her service in the Special Operations Executive. The first female wireless operator sent from Britain to France, she was captured by Nazis, her notes found but she refused to speak. Even under interrogation. She was executed in Dachau at 30
mxAOo TIL Astronauts only get paid about $70,000 starting out
nNOd TIL when Bill Clinton proposed to Hillary Clinton, he bought her the house she liked first and then said “you better marry me because I can’t live in it by myself.”
697MZ TIL that Small Business Saturday was created and promoted by American Express.
5MpQ TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only Pope in the history to have served 3 Papal terms.. And the only Pope to have sold Papacy… and the First Pope said to have been primarily homosexual who held orgies in the Lateran palace