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TIL the patron saint of businesspeople is St. Homobonus.

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Xg68 TIL that in 1961, Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”
xVeBg NASA Confirms: ‘We Are Going to the Moon’
9aGX TIL the Russian city of Norilsk, due to industrial nickel smelting operations, has such severe pollution that ponds within the city are dredged to recover the valuable heavy metals that accumulate in their bottom sediment
4kkdX TIL while dogs can tell humans are a different species, scientists believe that cats may simply think of humans as big, hairless, clumsy cats.
J1PQ1 TIL the term "port" to refer to a ship's lefthand side was for centuries much less common than the term "larboard", which only fell out of favor in the mid-1800s once the British Navy ordered its usage abandoned due to sounding too similar to "starboard".