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TIL a Catholic priest invented the Big Bang Theory.

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bQWZ TIL that the first woman to be a candidate for the President of the United States was actually Victoria Woodhull in 1872
XEEoX TIL: Around 200,000 people in Hong Kong eat, sleep, and clean themselves in roughly half the size of a parking spot, nicknamed Coffin Cubicles.
JY6ml TIL that Rick Rescorla, the director of security at Morgan Stanley, saved the lives of nearly his whole company on 9/11 by making them evacuate the South Tower as soon as the North Tower was hit, which was against Port Authority orders
GY0oj TIL that snow leopards cuddle with their partners at night
7rJoZ TIL that, although the Soho district in NYC was named hundreds of years after the Soho district in London, only NYC's Soho is a functional abbreviation (South of Houston St.) while London's Soho was likely named for a hunting call.