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TIL that scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.

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neNbo TIL George Washington had Taphephobia - the fear of being buried alive. He was adamant about being put into the morgue 3 days after his death to make sure he wasn’t “accidentally” alive.
bjVZ TIL 903 miles from Benghazi under President Ronald Reagan in 1983, numerous warnings were ignored in the Shiite truck bombing that killed 220 US Marines in Beirut. The lead sentry had no bullets in his gun.
rNA61 TIL Green Day started working on American Idiot after the master tapes of their previously planned album were stolen and they decided to start from scratch
8awla TIL Napoleon discovered in his Egyptian campaign, the remains of an ancient canal linking the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He planned to rebuild the canal, but gave up when it seemed to expensive. This was a couple decades before the Suez Canal.
b6Odp TIL that excommunicated Martin Luther, who had a history of depression, argued that suicide is not sin. Further cementing his differences with the Catholic Church.