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TIL that the origins of the word “bozo” are completely unknown.

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XEXbj TIL da Vinci was given a vineyard as payment for making The Last Supper, which was bombed in WW2, and the DNA of those vines is being used to recreate the wines he had
kl0W TIL That Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone) was named honorary chief by the Mohawk Native Americans because of his work in translating and documenting their language. He participated in tribal dances while wearing native ceremonial clothing.
N7YZe TIL The Microsoft Zune could send songs to nearby Zunes similar to AirDrop via a feature called "squirting"
m1wVo TIL 69% of panel members for the creation of the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version 5), have ties to pharmaceutical industries.
4XOZ6 TIL That the term "Agnostic" was coined in 1869 by T.H. Huxley, and not as a description, but as a creed: "to follow reason as far as it can take you, but then, when you have established as much as you can, frankly and honestly to recognize the limits of your knowledge."