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TIL that the future PM of the Netherlands, Victor Marijnen, was involved in having a young man castrated in retaliation for reporting abuse by monks at the children's home Marjinen ran.

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kOoDd TIL while working at a railway, Richard Sears' station received a shipment of gold watches but the jeweler refused the shipment. Sears got the watches at a reduced rate (a common scam) and sold them to his coworkers who needed to keep accurate time. The success lead to his first mail-order catalog.
4nxN TIL that a 2010 study showed that 5000 people with PhDs were janitors.
r0Ly TIL space has been continuously occupied by humans for 14 years 316 days as of today.
9wXl6 TIL birds have no bladder and don’t urinate and evolved to save weight by skipping liquid pee. They get rid of everything in one go as that chalky white paste.
8a0BK TIL that one of the rarest coins is the 1933 Double Eagle gold coin. 433,000 minted but subsequently melted down. Officially 2 were kept but a small handful aside from that we’re smuggled out of the mint before they were melted down. One of those coins sold in 2002 for $7,590,020.