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TIL The heart symbol was first used to denote love in the 1250’s. Prior to that, it represented foliage.

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v1EaR TIL F. D. C Willard is the name of cat that co-authored a number of academic papers in Physics. The author wanted to use the word 'we' instead of 'I' on the papers, so he listed his cat as a co-author.
DMEv TIL that in the late 1800’s, Doctors would infect sick patients with a secondary disease, in order to cure them of the primary one eg. a patient with syphilis would be injected with malaria, to give them a fever and thus, cure them (Most prominently by Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg)
9YKWM TIL The Farmer’s Almanac was once used to also serve as toilet paper. They drilled a hole in the corner so it could hang in an outhouse
Eg94P TIL that Zelda Fitzgerald wrote 'plagiarism begins at home' in response to her husband, F.Scott Fitzgerald, ripping off lines from her diary for his novels.
p8By8 TIL in 1955, Jack Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase in order to collect on insurance he purchased moment before her flight. The blast killed her and 43 other people on the plane