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TIL: Creed from The Office was actually playing solitaire the entire time in the background.

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vP4p8 TIL Euler's often wrote the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
l7WLK TIL of the Greek poet Aeschylus, who died after an eagle dropped a tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock on which to break the tortoise's shell.
4Wja TIL there are only three northern white rhinos left on earth, the only male has 24x7 armed guards, and there is a gofundme to raise half a million bucks to develop rhino IVF to keep the species alive
w77M TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
W7pRX TIL I learned that there are bullet holes on the roof of the Spanish parliament building as a remember of the coup in 1981.