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TIL St. Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy.

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WkQM8 TIL the word Avocado comes from a Nahuatl Indian (Aztec) word “ahuácatl” meaning testicle.
X06KQ TIL you need a license to play golf in Belgium and The Netherlands
W7obo TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.
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