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TIL Snooker was invented in India

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nBKB TIL the Exxon Valdez, a ship that caused one of the most infamous oil spills in history is still carrying oil today, albeit with a different name. However,it is banned from carrying oil off of the Alaskan coast, the site of the spill
OonwR TIL that ashes (cremated remains) can be compressed into a diamond. Several, actually. They've created up to 9 diamonds from a single person's remains.
BrXbd TIL of Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, a Dutch woman who saved 10,000 Jewish children by charming and bribing Dutch train workers and German officers including a young Adolf Eichmann. Research suggests she saved more Jewish lives than all but Raoul Wallenberg.
BrBZr TIL '4-F' is a classification given to someone indicating they are “not acceptable for service in the Armed Forces” for any number of reasons. It originated in the Civil War and was used to disqualify army recruits who did not have four front teeth with which to tear open gunpowder packages.
NPQ8 TIL that 16% Lithuanian people are HIV resistant.