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TIL Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of prostitutes.

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0opR TIL Google’s most efficient data center runs at 95 degrees using only fresh air cooling, which means no air conditioning units burning through electricity every day; the servers run so hot that humans cannot go near them for extended periods.
R78OQ TIL in 1828, Eastern State Penitentiary opened with a ground breaking agenda to rehabilitate prisoners. Prisoners had a cell each, and were comforted with central heating and flush toilets, something which even the White House didn't have at that time.
6EbJ TIL a human cyclops was born in India and lived for 24 hours.
9YrVB TIL of Matthew Hahn, a thief who stole a safe, cracked it open, and discovered pictures of the owner molesting a 2 year old. He then turned it in anonymously, and ended up getting sentenced to 14 years for unrelated crimes, the owner got sentenced to 30.
j6jnE TIL that the USS Pueblo - a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in January of 1968 is still listed as a commissioned vessel in the US Naval Fleet