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TIL that the Nation of Islam teaches that white people are a race of “Devils” created by a black scientist 6,600 years ago on a Greek island.

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VMQlQ TIL in 2017, five Denver nurses were suspended for opening a body bag and “admiring” the size of the dead man’s genitals.
oBMVL TIL there are bronze statues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Splinter) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, donated by their comics co-creator & university alum Peter Laird.
PY4oE TIL about Neil Horan, a laicized Irish Roman Catholic priest that tackled Vanderlei de Lima during the 2004 Athens Olympics marathon, arguably costing de Lima the gold medal.
ddwZ TIL the astronomer most responsible for having Pluto reclassified wrote a memoir about it called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”.
neYXB TIL that the common method for a spacecraft to shift between two orbits is called a Hohmann Transfer, and that the guy who calculated it (in 1925) was inspired by a science fiction book written in 1897, which gave a generally correct explanation of the concept of orbit trajectory