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TIL that Dr. Robert Graves (the discoverer of Graves' disease) was once caught in a storm aboard a ship with failing bilge pumps.
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TIL the inventor of the modern Frisbee once said that after death people "just land up on the roof and lay there."
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TIL that a battery invented in 1825 by an Italian Physicist and Priest has been ringing a bell continuously and hasn’t run out yet
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TIL that in 1972 Lily Tomlin walked off the set of The Dick Cavett Show after actor Chad Everett made a sexist joke referring to his wife as being one of the animals which he owned.
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TIL After Montana banned certain flags on government property, the city of Missoula adopted a rainbow as their official municipal flag
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TIL that after winning 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, Jesse Owens worked as a gas station attendant and a playground janitor.
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TIL We have never observed a red dwarf star dying, because the universe hasn't existed long enough for that to happen
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TIL that in 1660, King Charles II personally chartered the Royal Society, giving royal patronage to scientists and thinkers meeting to test ideas by experiment rather than dogma.
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TIL while waiting for a flat tire to be fixed before deaparture, Sue Hendrickson decided to explore an area their fossil expedition never checked.
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