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XXjP TIL that in 1740, Christina Johansdotter, a suicidal Swedish woman, exploited a loophole in dogmas. Suicide leading to Hell and infanticides being punishable by death, she decided to kill a child since repenting for a crime granted forgiveness, thus leading her to Heaven after her execution.
ey5g TIL In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent
L189 TIL there is a clock being built inside a mountain that will keep time in centuries, chime every 1000 years, and last at least 10000 years.
P19XE TIL that if each move took one second, a 64 disk Tower of Hanoi would take around 585 billion years to complete
6ERQY TIL The four rings in the Audi logo represent the four companies of the Auto Union - Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW. Horch for high-end luxury cars, Audi for deluxe cars, Wanderer stuck with standard mid-size cars and DKW decided to go with small cars and motorcycles.