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TIL Hawaii still has an active leper colony

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eJWL TIL one of mathematician John von Neumann’s lecturers said “Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he’d come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper.”
Z896p TIL 10-20 percent of USA power outages are caused by squirrels
mxrKo TIL That the RMS in the name RMS Titanic stands for Royal Mail Ship
Xy8X TIL there is a professional Indian cricketer named ‘Napoleon Einstein’ and when asked about his unusual name, said: “We don’t believe in God. In our family, we’re rationalists. Other people are named Krishna and Ram after Gods, so we were named Einstein and Napoleon after great people.”
nRpb TIL when North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was parodied in the film Team America: World Police (2004), the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea asked the Czech Republic to ban the film.