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TIL Einstein was married to Elsa Einstein - his first cousin on his mother’s side and second cousin on his father’s side

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kOwb7 TIL of John Von Neumann, a mathematician polymat that invented computers (the architecture in every digital computer today), a precursor theory of DNA without having been a biologist, played a pivotal in creating the Atom bomb, and laid out the mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.
dDKn7 TIL Albert Dekker was found dead kneeling naked in a bathtub, blindfolded, handcuffed with a ballgag in his mouth, a noose around his neck, lipstick drawings all over his body and needles on both his arms, money and items missing from his apartment. Police initialy ruled it a suicide
YxDx TIL that when British warships enter the Thames they are required to present a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower (the man in command of the Tower of London) in the ‘Ceremony of the Constables Dues’.
wLKEW TIL an estimated one in fifty people suffer from Aphantasia, a condition in which the person’s “mind eye” is blind and they can’t picture things just by thinking about them
VxRp TIL that in Hindu astrology, if a woman has a negative mark on her horoscope that is believed to affect future marriage, she can marry a tree to transfer the bad luck to this ‘first’ marriage partner.