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TIL Mathematician Leonard Euler was so prolific and original that some of his discoveries have been named after the first person to have proved it after Euler

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KKVJ TIL For those who have trouble sleeping researchers say that 1 week of camping, without electronics, resets our biological body clock and synchronizes our melatonin hormones with sunrise and sunset.
W7GrA TIL that there was once a device to flatten neckties for ironing them.
MejMV TIL: In a bra, cup size doesn’t measure breast size. It signifies the difference in measurement between ribcage and bust. A woman can wear an 80B and 75C bra the same.
mjEv TIL during the filming of Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren hit Sylvester Stallone so hard he had to stay in intensive care for four days.
LZ9v TIL During WW2, a US politician got 800 sailors killed after bragging to the press about the Japanese setting off depth charges too early.