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TIL that Les Paul is the only person to be included in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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W7NOL TIL Jerusalem is named after the Canaanite god of the setting sun and the nether world, as well as of health and perfection. Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the "Evening Star" and Shahar the "Morning Star."
J1r78 TIL of Pre-Code Hollywood, a period between the invention of sound in films and creation of the MPA, which produced socially-progressive and anti-capitalist films in the 1920s before Republican & Catholic-led censorship
R5nX9 TIL self-defense is not an enumerated right under US Constitution
ZPZG TIL that Constantinople became Istanbul because people started referring to it as “The City” and the Greek phrase for “In The City” is pronounced “Is Tin Poli.” Over time, this became Istanbul.
lox17 TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he used on his later victims