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TIL 1 Millihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.

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6gl TIL there is only one video of Mark Twain in existence and it was shot by Thomas Edison. [1:47] (X-Post from /r/videos)
QGlX TIL that it is a myth that Albert Einstein failed maths as a student: “Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus”
d4Z9 TIL the US military would play Enter Sandman for hours on end to aid in the interrogation and torture of prisoners. Asked about this, Metallica’s James Hetfield responded “We’ve been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music for ever. Why should the Iraqis be any different?”
YpjK7 TIL about Clementine Barnabet, an American teenager who murdered and beheaded 35 people with an ax due to her belief in a voodoo cult called the Church of Sacrifice. Sentenced to life in prison at age 18 in in 1912, she escaped in 1923 and was never heard of again.
LkovQ TIL in 1924, a Russian scientist started blood transfusion experiments, hoping to achieve eternal youth. After 11 blood transfusions, he claimed he had improved his eyesight and stopped balding. He died after a transfusion with a student suffering from malaria and TB (The student fully recovered).