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TIL Lemony Snicket named the Baudelaire Children after Charles Baudelaire, a French poet that said, "Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art"

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DXnY TIL in 1996, Bear Grylls broke his back after falling 16'000ft when his parachute ripped. Two years later he climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest.
OG4J7 TIL that snot becomes yellow when you're sick because of chemicals released by white blood cells that are in the mucus to fight infection; green snot indicates even higher levels of those chemicals
0AXM TIL a German mathematician spent a decade writing a 200 page manuscript about drawing a regular 65537 sided polygon with a compass and a straightedge
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