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TIL the Big Bang theory was discovered by a Catholic Priest

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N7Z01 TIL That when we lose fat weight, it’s primarily done by breathing it out.
OGkXY TIL that the cast of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was barely paid for the work they did.
8e6MG TIL in 1945 there were statues created from the measurements of 15,000 American men and women, representing the average size and shape of a U.S. citizen. They were named Normman and Norma.
GYXe4 TIL The British town of Berwick-upon-Tweed was, due to a bureaucratic error, left out of the Crimean War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Upon Berwick's eventual signing of a peace treaty 110 years later, then-Mayor declared: “Tell the Russians they can sleep easy in their beds.”
7Vyr TIL after WWII, a group of Jewish-extremists formulated a Holocaust-revenge plan to kill 6 million German citizens by poisoning the water-supply of Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg and Hamburg. However, it was foiled by British police while the poison was in transit to Germany.