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TIL that Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.

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kbD1 TIL that in 2016, two recreational divers in Israel stumbled upon a Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins featuring Constantine the Great. Estimated to be 1,600 years old, archaeologists called the discovery ‘The Biggest Find in 30 Years’
LklKQ TIL Charles Darwin wrote a pros and cons of marriage ( including the positivity of “female chit-chat) before marrying his cousin
mBxP TIL that the 1918 flu pandemic is often called the Spanish flu because Spain didn’t fake and minimise the data about the dead like Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
X05jQ TIL that brown rats were domesticated twice. First in Japan starting around 1654 and then a second time completely independently in Europe in the early 1800s.
w6rE TIL in 1980 some dad cut his 8 year old’s penis off and flushed it down the toilet because he was late home. After a 90 minute search in the sewers, firemen recovered the penis and it was successfully attached back onto the boy in a 3h operation.