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TIL that small icebergs are called “bergy bits”

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4XPx6 TIL that David Hume, at a dinner party, once openly questioned whether anyone could truly be an atheist. His host, the Baron d'Holbach, revealed that Hume was sitting at a table with seventeen atheists.
jd1j TIL Bill Gates imported a Porsche 959 supercar before it was road legal, and the $470,000 car was impounded for 13 years before the law was changed.
rRALo TIL that prior to British troops firing on civilians at the Boston Massacre in 1770, they were pelted with oyster shells, ice, stones, sticks, and beaten with clubs by an unruly mob. At the trial, the soldiers were successfully defended by none other than John Adams and all were acquitted of murder.
N71WE TIL Documentary Filmmaker Brian Fogle accidentally discovered the Russian State Sponsored Doping program while making a movie about how to beat doping tests. The movie is credited with helping start the investigation that ended up blocking Russia from competing at the Olympics since 2017
15RW TIL that some scholars believe early Christianity was completely based on the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms and that any mention of Jesus or the Eucharist was actually this mushroom