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TIL the Vatican declared wearing bikinis a sin in the 1950s.
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TIL that Harambe’s mother, only full brother, and two of his half siblings were killed when a tub of wet chlorine tablets was left by a space heater. The toxic fumes were blown into the gorilla enclosure and killed the four gorillas.
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TIL in 2012 Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki presented a proof for the “abc conjucture” - one of the most important, unsolved problems in math. However the proof is so difficult and abstract, that not even his peers get the gist of it. To this day it is still unconfirmed.
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TIL of the Tea-Horse-Road. During Imperial-era, the Chinese noticed that Tibetans prized tea so much, they would trade high-quality horses for tea-bricks. As they needed warhorses to fight nomads, the Chinese set up a government office to sell tea for Tibetan horses, creating the Tea-Horse Road.
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TIL Space Shuttle Columbia and Enterprise were initially fitted with ejection seats borrowed from the SR71
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TIL that nail biting has been associated with a better functioning immune system because of the exposure to germs on a small scale that your body can build antibodies to.