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TIL Pearson, the education publisher, reported a loss of £2.6 billion in 2016

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NamM TIL “hocus pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”
6EpBm TIL of Mortsafes. They were iron contraptions placed over a grave to prevent body snatchers from digging up the newly deceased people. You can still find disused mortsafes around Scotland
YXE7 TIL Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins, but broke it off because she couldn’t get it out of her head that he was Hannibal Lector. Verified by her in a NPR: Wait Wait interview
Z8j6D TIL The Stanford Prison Experiment's Results Have Never Been Replicated, and Many Question its Findings, Methodology, Sample Size, and Neutrality.
OGYA7 TIL about the Madagascan hawkmoth, a species of hawkmoth with a proboscis nearly 30 centimeters long. This species was predicted by Charles Darwin in 1862 after seeing a sample of an orchid specimen with an extremely long nectar tube. This species was finally discovered in 1903.