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TIL there is a neurological condition that gives one “an uncontrollable tendency to pun.”

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npVd TIL the Grim Reaper was most commonly depicted carrying a scythe as imagery to death was an extension of an agrarian society in which harvesting, done in the fall, represented the death of another year.
8e9kb TIL There were thirty married astronauts during the Gemini and Apollo programs—all but seven marriages ended in divorce
E1OLW TIL a legal loophole in the UK allows alcohol to be sold without a license on a train in motion. An unlicensed distillery exploited this by setting up in a disused railway building, obtaining a steam train, and selling gin to customers while they road it back and forth from the distillery.
6EEvm TIL that during WW2 Boeing had a huge hidden factory camouflaged with a fake town on its roof.
Nbk1 TIL-John Wesley Hardin shot and killed a man for snoring too loudly in a hotel.