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TIL Denton Cooley answered in the affirmative when a lawyer during a trial asked him if he considered himself to be the best heart surgeon in the world. “Don’t you think that’s being rather immodest?” the lawyer replied. "Perhaps,” Cooley responded. “But remember I’m under oath.”

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p8Kr4 TIL that James A. Garfield was hired to teach penmanship to the students of Pownal, Vermont after the previous teacher left, that teacher's name? Chester A. Arthur.
gMmrb TIL The oldest house structure in the world is the 15,000 years old one made of mammoth bones found near Kyiv, Ukraine
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loQ9a TIL: While working at Atari, Steve Wozniak designed the driving arcade game GRAN TRACK 10. Years later he found a pizza parlor that offered a free pizza for anyone who could get a score over 36. After winning two pizzas the restaurant removed the game.
e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.