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TIL That the most unlikely Celebs are geniuses (Dolph Lundgren!)

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wond1 TIL that Pope Gregory IX issued a Papal Bull declaring that cats bore Satan’s spirit, which subsequently led to huge numbers of cats being killed throughout Europe producing an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats, which would otherwise have been hunted by the dead cats.
KYVO4 TIL the “Jennifer Aniston neuron” is a brain cell that responds to images of Jennifer Aniston.
0wEJy TIL a group of liberal arts students have been running a nuclear reactor for over 50 years and they scoop dropped items out of the reactor with a bucket and long stick
LkmAZ TIL that JERK is the official term for the rate of acceleration.
e0xln TIL Jerry Springer was born in a London subway during the World War II: his mother had taken shelter in the station from an air raid.