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TIL that the English county of Sussex was divided into Rapes.

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GXR7 TIL that when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Niels Bohr had his colleagues’ Nobel medals dissolved in acid. They were stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was precipitated and the medals re-struck by the Nobel Foundation.
E1KGX TIL that wood knots are formed by new wood growing around dead branches from when the tree was younger
5ej9 TIL that Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln held a seance in the white house after the loss of their son.
We9o TIL euphoria can be a symptom of syphilis due to its effects on the nervous system.
DQ0lD TIL Napalm, an incendiary mixture developed in 1942 at Harvard University, killed more Japanese in World War II than did the two atomic bomb blasts