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TIL: Tim Allen's real name is Timothy Alan Dick

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KOBNR TIL that Robert Morris, namesake of Robert Morris University, engaged in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and personally owned several slaves.
XElYP TIL Michael Burry's autism (Aspergers) enabled him to see patterns in the 2007 housing market data that helped him predict the coming crash. As the data worsened, Burry found that heavy metal music calmed his nerves, something research has more recently shown is ideal for his "Brain Type S."
ZpM4 TIL That on October 29th 529BC Was The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder
KYBoQ TIL that even though early whales lived on land for more than 50 million years, they were never hunted by humans. About 30 millions years before humans emerged the whales had a moved back to the sea. The hippopotamus is the closest relative to whales still on land.
9wNvQ TIL there is a partially underwater prison near the capital of Estonia that is a popular diving spot. The lake under which it is submerged was the quarry where the prisoners worked when the prison was operational. When it was abandoned the groundwater submerged it.