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TIL about a man who took the California State Bar Exam 48 times before he finally passed and transitioned from being his son's law clerk to his son's law partner

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VM05m TIL that adult women represent a larger percentage (33%) of video game players than boys under 18 (17%).
rRAax TIL that, in 1922, Nikola Tesla imagined that his favorite pigeon told him that she was dying. When she actually did shortly after, he said that "something went out of his life and he knew his life's work was finished".
J9l8 TIL that Japanese tourists often find Paris so disappointing that they get physically sick. It’s called the Paris Syndrome.
a8JZN TIL that Daniele Comboni, the founder of the Catholic Priest group, Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
Egr9P TIL the name of the fighting machine the "Tank" got its name because of subterfuge, as the British wanted to pass them off as water tanks bound for Russia.