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TIL that there is a Patron Saint of the Internet

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4DBw TIL Bill Nye owns several patents, including one for ballet shoes and another for a clear plastic bag filled with water
larB TIL India was the first country to develop extraction and purifying techniques of Sugar in 350 AD. The technique then reached Persia and from there the knowledge was transferred to the World.
VMyWQ TIL the creator of the Rainforest Cafe chain first tested out the concept in his house. He decorated it with 45 birds, 9 fish tanks, and many plants. He even set up fake thunderstorms. His neighbors thought he was crazy.
WG0N TIL a transgender person living as a woman for more than 20 years was arrested for indecent exposure because her breasts were visible through a sheer top and then after a nurse examined her genitals, the state decided that she was technically male and put her in the men’s prison ward.
b9b5Q TIL that when cremating a body the "ashes" you get back are actually just pulverized bone.