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TIL that the early church viewed alcohol as a gift from god that made life joyous.

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xVBJ0 TIL In 1953, the Canadian government relocated some of the Inuit in Northern Quebec up north to Resolute and Grise Fiord. The relocation has been described as a humanitarian gesture to save the lives of starving native people and enable them to continue a subsistence lifestyle
neW TIL that the Body Mass Index (BMI) was created for a social statistics experiment, and was never intended to be an indicator of health.
l7YLN TIL After failing his entrance examinations at the University of Zurich, Einstein settled in Bern, where he wrote his post-doctoral thesis and published five works that changed the world view of physics forever
leoK TIL: Older generation spy satellites predated any form of digital imaging by decades. They literally exposed film and dropped it back to earth in small re-entry pods.