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TIL The oldest university is a mosque founded in 859
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TIL When Ronald Reagan became president of the United States he asked his Chief of Staff to see “The War Room”. No one had informed him that it was only a movie set that was created fictionally for the black comedy “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.
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TIL suicides are most likely to occur on Monday.
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TIL the first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. The students at Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend in 1847, so they decided to accept her. She graduated in 1849, started own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
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TIL the last remaining vessel of the German Imperial Navy is a passenger ferry which is still sailing around Lake Tanganyika. She was built in 1913, was converted into a warship for WWI, was scuttled in 1916, and then raised and salvaged in 1924 before being returned to service in 1927.
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TIL that Louisiana has its own version of French called “Creole French” which only 70'000 people can speak. It varies so much from standard French that native French speakers cannot understand it.