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TIL that Galileo wasn’t vindicated by the Church until 1992

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loDWr TIL that in 1962, president John F Kennedy snagged 1200 Cuban cigars for himself before he banned their import.
5Vg4n TIL about Rebecca Sharrock, a 27-year-old from Australia who has Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM), a rare syndrome that allows her to recall every single detail of her life on any given date.
vdR8 TIL; A man is serving a Life Sentence for loaning a car to a friend and falling asleep.
nNeo TIL Rottweilers were known as “Rottweil butchers’ dogs” because they were used to herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat and other products to market.
mxBWO TIL some elephants eat off a specific tree to induce labor - the same tree which kenyan women brew a tea of for the same purpose