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TIL our current model of physics only works for 4% of the matter/energy in the universe

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yjEJ TIL that the Grand Mosque of Paris provided refuge and muslim IDs for Jews trying to escape the clutches of the axis powers and the holocaust during WW II.
GARVG TIL: In 2019, Salman Mirza and his ex wanted to hook up, but didn't have a condom, so they used epoxy resin to seal it in instead. His friends later found him unconscious and drove him to the hospital where he died of multiple organ failures due to the faux condom.
bvJQ TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
b9Q00 TIL after Ringo Starr publically claimed that he missed nothing about Liverpool, a hedge statue of Ringo in Liverpool got its head chopped off.
X0omR TIL Hippocrates believed that hair was hollow and its purpose was storing semen, which was created in the brain. As men went through puberty the semen would flow into the hair all over their bodies. Women lacked body hair but had long head hair to more readily absorb semen during intercourse.