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TIL King Frederick II took 5 babies from their families and deprived them of being talked to or even played with to figure out what language Adam and Eve spoke in the garden of Eden. He thought it was either Greek, Latin, Arabic, or Hebrew.

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Y7mZ7 TIL the most translated book after the Bible is The Little Prince
Erbw TIL - The highest blood alcohol content ever recorded was .91%, more than twice the typical lethal limit and eleven times more than legally drunk.
xV897 TIL that Kurt Cobain met and made an album with his idol novelist William Burroughs. After Cobain left their first meeting with each other in October 1993, Burroughs said to his secretary "There is something wrong with that boy, he frowns for no good reason".
p8ERG TIL that the fourth leading cause of death in the United States is adverse reactions to FDA approved drugs.
p8EWA TIL that on January 14, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft landed the Hguyens probe on the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan. It is the first probe to land on a surface in the outer solar system and remains the farthest any man-made spacecraft has landed.