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TIL The Kop at Liverpool FC is named for the Liverpudlian soldiers who died in South Africa

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vP58 TIL during the 1700s in Germany, those wanting to commit suicide but avoid the sin of it found a loophole; they murdered children, turned themselves in, then prayed for forgiveness right before execution
pKPZ TIL that neuroscientists in Japan discovered a protein that is essential for rapid communication between the eyes and they brain, so they named it “pikachurin” due to Pikachu’s “lightning-fast moves and shocking electric effects.”
nYgo TIL of Leyla Mafi, a mentally disabled Iranian girl who was prostituted out by her mother and gave birth at 9, for which she was punished with public beatings and imprisonment
XE98 TIL “Shutter Island” is an anagram of “Truths and Lies” and “Truths / Denials.”
M4Om TIL that in the story of Job, God bets Satan that he can kill all of his family and Job would still praise God.