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TIL In 1965 Former Vice President Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones, while they were at Harvard University were roommates. The two of them became fast friends and even started a country music band together.

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YA7B TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ireland. Since he was denied, he told navigators he planned to fly to California instead. 27 hours later he arrived in Ireland, telling officials that he must have mistakenly gone the wrong way.
4k0VN TIL about the Cadaver Synod: In 897, Pope Stephen VI held a bizarre trial against the corpse of Pope Formosus, accusing him of crimes like perjury and violating church laws. Formosus' decayed body was dressed in papal robes, propped up, and symbolically 'defended' in court.
l75DV TIL walking into a spider's web is considered a good omen in Thailand, and means you'll meet a new friend. In Japan it means meeting a new friend the very same day.
r5lx TIL Gin descends from a juniper liquor first distilled in Belgium or Holland. During the Thirty Years’ War, England’s army saw Dutch soldiers fortifying themselves for battle by drinking genever. They brought this so-called “Dutch courage” back home.
M75m TIL That due to the cosmological principle, any spot in space and time can be the centre of the universe.