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TIL this year 17 y.o. Hannah Cairo disproved a major mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago

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woLJ7 TIL the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire was created at the request of the Hampton Court in 1882. As they felt their collection of the European ones were incomplete without it.
PYLbG TIL two Walmart employees fell in love and got married in the same store where they worked in. “We didn’t know where we wanted to get married, and we didn’t have a lot of money to do anything big. Everybody we know works at Walmart ...all our friends are here."
E1DoX TIL that the BEANO T-13, a WWII impact grenade, was designed to emulate the size, weight, and grip of a baseball – allowing young American G.I.’s to throw it with distance and accuracy.
yk4l TIL there are a series of tiny “fairy doors” built into dozens of buildings in Ann Arbor, MI, and now have a cult following in the area
JyD1 TIL that “Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.”