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TIL that there are 72 names of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved on the Eiffel Tower

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V7GD TIL Mike Kurtz, an american burglar, found out that eating common soap could produce the effect of ill health. His sudden and unexplainable weight loss and other symptoms baffled the prison doctors and he was able to fool officials that he was dying and received a pardon.
MeKL0 TIL in 2014 a stray cat kept wandering into the lynx enclosure at the St. Petersburg Zoo in Russia in search of food. She was later adopted by the zoo after she and the lynx became friends.
oRNvA TIL that dishes made of lead may have caused the fall of the Roman Empire as it could likely caused lead poisoning that lowered the cognitive abilities of the ruling class
7Krb TIL actor Martin Sheen has been married to the same woman for 56 years
0wMbv TIL there is no constitutional requirement for a U.S. State to hold presidential elections. A State legislature can theoretically just handpick its presidential electors.